Telco Cloud Attack! – Verizon goes to U.S and Europe with its Cloud offerings

Getting a realtime control over your business is one of the key reasons why firms will [eventually] go for cloud offerings. Clearly you can see that the cloud market is suddenly an opportunity for all sorts of parties such as Telco’s , System Integrators, HW vendors, Software vendors. As the marketplace gets crowded, there may not be much of pie left for everyone to eat while the pie may [seem to] expand.

Expect many market contractions and M&A [both organic and inorganic - as I have forecast earlier for 2009 Q3 thru 2010 Q2] for players to gain market share.

The portal keeps track of the CPU, storage, and network resources that are deployed in the cloud and also shows the status of maintenance on any of the instances as things go wrong (as they always do whenever computers are involved). The big selling points of CaaS are the same for any cloud computing offering: You only pay for what you use, and you can scale what you use up and down at will. Verizon is also boasting about network security and bandwidth as well, which is what you expect from a telecom giant.

Verizon’s CaaS service is available in the United States and Europe today and will be available in the Asia/Pacific region in August. Pricing was not available at press time.

Verizon Business has a fairly large application hosting business, with over 20 different kinds of servers and systems supported, as well as a remote virtualization and application management services, backup and caching services, and email and IM hosting services.

AT&T, Verizon’s main telecom rival and also an IT infrastructure player that is also moving into cloud computing, announced a remote physical and virtual server management service back in March that complements the Synaptic Hosting utility-style computing service that AT&T launched last year. Like Verizon, AT&T did not divulge pricing for its cloud offerings.

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