Integrating the Cloud Ecosystem

By 2015, 46% of CIOs will have more than half of their infrastructure and applications operating in the Cloud, Gartner says. Cloud is no more a buzzword, in fact it is the answer to many challenges associated with a traditional IT landscape. By leveraging Cloud's on-demand infrastructure, applications and services, businesses can focus on their core competencies and leave IT to the experts.

Today, most enterprise are ready to move to Cloud, all they need is a flight plan. However, given the intricate nature of the Cloud proposition and the multiplicity of options, there are confusions over how to embark on a viable Cloud journey. Moreover, as you go through the Cloud adoption journey, you're confronted with the pain of partnering with multiple Cloud providers (platform, infrastructure, applications). Most of them offer differing levels of functionality, support, transparency and above all security capabilities. What further complicates is that there is no single point of accountability. SLAs are not clear, pricing models are varying, etc. The result? You may not reap the right business value from the Cloud.

This is where Infosys comes in as a Cloud Ecosystem Integrator. The integrator takes the ownership of your entire Cloud initiative, they front-end the initiative and manage all the complexity in the background. Infosys as a Cloud Ecosystem Integrator provide comprehensive professinal services for the Cloud, services in the Cloud and ecosystem of partnerships.

They provide three kinds of business platforms. This include horizontal platforms such as digital consumer, vertical platforms such as retail, manufacturing, and edge platforms addressing needs common across specific verticals.