CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A recent cloud services study published by market research firm Infonetics Research details operator plans for cloud services, including their strategies and approaches to offering cloud services, cloud services offered now and in the future, and top applications of each type of service: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS, or cloud infrastructure), and platform as a service (PaaS).
For the report, Cloud Service Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey, Infonetics analysts interviewed 20 incumbent, competitive, data center operators, and cable operators that offer cloud services now or plan to by 2013. All survey respondents are knowledgeable purchase decision-makers at service providers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), Asia Pacific, and North America that together represent 20% of the world’s telecom carrier revenue and 21% of the world’s telecom capex.
“Service providers around the world have embraced the cloud concept in earnest and are heavily investing in new services and service delivery platforms based on their particular areas of expertise. Internet content providers are leading with SaaS, data center and co-location operators are adding IaaS to their product portfolios and investing in additional infrastructure facilities, and traditional telcos are building on their existing networks and adding a range of services,” notes Sam Barnett, Infonetics Research’s directing analyst for data center and cloud.
CLOUD SERVICE SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS
- 70% of respondent operators are investing in cloud services in anticipation of demand
- The top operator strategies for offering cloud services are bundling cloud services with network connectivity services and offering cloud services over Ethernet or IP VPN services
- Many of the smaller data center providers participating in Infonetics’ survey plan to keep their business uncomplicated by moving from simple collocation support offerings to IaaS via the addition of computer and storage hardware, rather than getting into the complexities of offering OS software platforms
- 95% of respondent operators offer IaaS now
- More sophisticated offerings like platform as a service, or PaaS (formed by the addition of server operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and Unix) and software as a service, or SaaS (such as e-mail and security services offered by telcos and ICPs like Google) are currently offered by fewer operators, but will grow significantly by 2013
More at http://www.infonetics.com
