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Another "Cloud Service Provider Report"

A bit of Friday reading for those of you who are tracking this space like I am.

Quick synopsis: EMC sponsors this report on SP market trends and adoption, but with a European focus rather than the traditional US-centric view.  The Aug/Sept 2010 issue can be found here.

Always a good read ... enjoy!

(Thanks to Richard Bradbury and Steve Toft of EMC for making this report available to the rest of us)

Orange And The Model For Next-Generation SPs

This week's SP-related news was pretty big: Orange Business Services announced their "Flexible 4 Business" cloud services, based on VMware / Cisco / EMC technologies.

The relationship was positioned as a "business alliance".  Some said that seemed a big vague and wishy-washy, but -- actually -- it's a very accurate and insightful characterization.

Because -- at the end of the day -- isn't that what it's all about?

Azure Starts To Get Interesting -- Sort Of

Never a dull moment in our business.

Today, Microsoft offered up a "statement of intent" to provide pre-configured infrastructure running Microsoft' Azure environment.  For examples of the coverage, take a look here and here.

Not surprisingly, this contrasts sharply with the efforts I've been working on, primarly around VCE and Vblocks.

Rather than degrade into a typical competitive rant, I think there are some very interesting themes in play here -- especially from a service provider perspective.

The Cloud Service Provider Report

Hi everyone, sorry for being absent from this blog for a while, but it's heating up again ...

I thought I'd share with you some interesting reading.  A while back, EMC (thanks to Richard Bradbury) starting sponsoring research on the state-of-the-state regarding the above topic -- only from an EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) perspective.

Anyone who's done business globally realizes the obvious -- different markets evolve uniquely -- and the EMEA evolution of the newer generation of service providers is no exception.

I find the compare-and-contrast useful insight -- hopefully you will too:

Disclaimer: although these reports are sponsored by EMC, they are not marketing fluff -- there are really good nuggets to be had if you're interested ...

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