Irrational cloud exuberance is slowly morphing into boring, normalized risk adjusted business decision making. Market segmentation is well underway. I am especially jacked up about the service providers that are staking out the high ground at the “enterprise ready” end of the market. Enterprise ready = standards based, secure, compliant and fully supported by human beings that can spell ITIL. Bluelock and Enki are Nimsoft customers operating in the enterprise ready cloud segment. They are poised to deliver on high stakes cloud computing.
Customers want choice on the “really cheap” to “high value” cloud continuum and they are getting it. What does it mean? More buying, less window shopping – the cloud opportunity rationalized and realized.