Cloud Services
Welcome to the Cloud Services research pavilion. Below you will find information from most of the leading providers of cloud services in New Zealand, including contact details, case studies, articles, demos, web links, brochures and white papers to assist you research and locate the best solution for your organisation. Check also the iStart Diary for local events on this subject. All vendors showcased below will be glad to assist with your enquiries.
Solution Providers
As the local leader in cloud service development and consulting, we can help you utilise cloud services for cost-savings, unprecedented flexibility and innovation.
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Fujitsu’s Cloud Services offer a fully flexible model for IT infrastructure, platforms and applications, allowing you to match technology systems and costs directly to your changing business needs.
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Our legacy in big iron management and New Zealand-based Type-R interlinked data centres make Revera a leading provider of utility computing infrastructure and enterprise data management. We deliver high integrity computing infrastructure, enterprise storage, and data management services to New Zealand businesses and partners.
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We deliver enterprise-level data centre facilities, managed hosting and internet services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the Pan Asian region. ICONZ integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a managed solution via our New Zealand data centres, managed by our local 24 x 7 support team.
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Our standardised development and test environment on the IBM Cloud can help you realise faster application deployment with reduced capital and operational costs.
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Computer Concepts Limited has forged an enviable reputation for providing innovative and cost effective engineering-powered IT expertise. Founded in 1990 Computer Concepts now employs over 140 staff nationwide delivering IT services to Enterprise customers as well as small business. Having been founded by an IT engineer the company has maintained this heritage and is proud to be engineering focused throughout the business.
The company delivers a vast range of IT services.
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Appserv is New Zealand’s longest standing focused “IT as a Service” provider. We will work with you to create a service solutions model of the IT services and processes your business requires. Using this model we build a complete IT solutions package that is provided at a monthly per user or per application fee. The model is completely flexible and scalable with known costs, so you’ll always know your business needs are covered.
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Cloud computing is a model for enabling on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources, such that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
For most people, “in the cloud” means that applications are accessed through a browser.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology IT Laboratory (NIST) has prescribed a widely accepted definition of the cloud such that for computing to accurately be described as taking place in the cloud, it must display each of the following characteristics:
- on-demand self-service (the provisioning of computing capabilities without the interaction of the provider)
- broad network access (capabilities are network-available and can be accessed through thin or thick clients, mobile phones, laptops or PDAs)
- resource pooling (a multi-tenanted model with physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned based on demand)
- rapid elasticity (unlimited, fast up- and down-scaling)
- measured service (automatic, metered resource use).
In addition, cloud computing should operate according to one of three service models:
- cloud software as a service (SaaS)
- cloud platform as a service (PaaS)
- or cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
It should also be delivered via one of four deployment models:
- private cloud (internal, corporate data centres)
- community cloud (shared by several organisations)
- public cloud (cloud providers)
- hybrid cloud (a combination of traditional desktop and online access).
There are two basic cloud payment models: the utility model, similar to the way electricity is retailed, where customers pay for what they use. The other is a subscription model where customers pay a flat monthly fee based on the number of their users.
Cloud computing may make compelling economic sense, especially should you decide to focus on your core competency, which probably isn’t running and maintaining servers.
Articles/Industry Reports
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Cloud
Many pundits agree that 2011 is set to become the year of The Cloud and that IT professionals need to prepare themselves. While everyone seems to be...
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Kiwis flocking to the cloud
New Zealand has been named the most cloud savvy country in Asia Pacific, according to a recent business survey...
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Cloud resilience at what price?
What factors should businesses consider, and what questions should they ask prospective providers, to ensure their operations and their business...
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Security concerns keeping businesses out of the cloud
Poll finds corporate concerns about security and data privacy continue to be the major barriers to enterprise adoption of cloud computing...
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Business Communications will be the next cloud wave
An expert in business communication solutions reveals that cloud service delivery has become more than a novel new way to deploy applications...
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Cloud computing - out of the sandbox into the mainstream
It’s a long-term ‘disruptive’ development that the global recession is only speeding up –customers buying only what services they want – and only...
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Six cost drivers behind US$42 billion SaaS uptake
Analyst IDC finds cost is the major factor driving up spending on cloud computing, also known as SaaS, which is set to jump three-fold, to US$42...
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IDC's NZ IT Services Predictions: 'Fusion' rather than 'Confusion' setting the scene for 2011
Auckland, New Zealand, 17 January 2011. Reconstruction, deconstruction, transformation, and consolidation - these are all recurring themes in...
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SaaS the clouds roll in
Software as a Service (SaaS) is growing in popularity, proving a cheaper alternative to traditional in-house solutions. Randal Jackson explores where...
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Other Resources
www.idc.com/prodserv/idc_cloud.jsp
www.gartner.com/technology/research/cloud-computing/index.jsp
www.forrester.com/rb/search/results.jsp?N=71766
LinkedIn Group – ‘Cloud Computing Forum – NZ’
