Delivering Cloud And Managed Services To Enterprise Customers

Leading communications service providers (CSPs) have successfully found an important niche in public enterprise-grade cloud computing services, one that builds on their strengths in enterprise-grade networking and managed services provision. This niche consists of offering a middle ground between traditional public cloud computing delivered over the public Internet and customized and more expensive private cloud computing services. This report explains why the focus on enterprise-grade public cloud computing services is important to CSPs, and discusses a possible evolutionary path for managed enterprise-grade cloud services that continues to build on CSPs’ strengths.