‘as a service’ offerings and hybrid multi-cloud architectures become the norm in enterprise computing

Each generation of enterprise computing (centralized, client-server, Internet, managed services, cloud) has created disruption and inefficiencies in integration of the new with the old. Leading suppliers such as Cisco, IBM, Oracle, HPE, Huawei, Atos, Fujitsu and Hitachi will attempt to hang on to their customers’ budgets by promoting ‘as a service’ offerings in 2022 and most have the ability to integrate this new style of support with the physical equipment, software and services they’ve sold them in the past.
Many of these have offloaded their traditional managed services and outsourcing businesses over the last few years – many will now compete with them through standardizing architectures and simplified service delivery. Time will see whether customers are prepared to modernize the infrastructures enough to take advantage.
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