Where is your place in the cloud?

Builder-type Value Added Resellers design and implement fully provisioned private or hybrid clouds, and turn them over for their customer’s IT to manage.

Providers make money by hosting private clouds for their customers, as well as consulting on cloud services.

Pure resellers focus on their forte: reselling a cloud provider's services.

As with any dynamic market, Value Added Resellers can differentiate their services by mixing and matching expertise from building, providing, or reselling cloud services.

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Cloud 101

Understand what makes up the Cloud

The cloud offers a myriad of capabilities and benefits that meet business and computing challenges across a spectrum of companies and user groups. However, all clouds share the following:

Key Characteristics

  • Pooled computing resources
  • Network-centric
  • Agile provisioning of resources
  • Rapid allocation of resources
  • Pay-per-use pricing and metering

  • Major Layers

  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service
  • Platform-as-a-Service
  • Software-as-a-Service

  • Deployment Models

  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
  • Community cloud

  • Emerging Channel Nomenclature

  • Cloud Builder
  • Cloud Provider
  • Cloud Reseller

  • Read more

     
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