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the enterprise that fuelled new insights,
new understanding and breakthrough
innovations that truly changed the world.
Those companies that saw the potential
of the cloud in their industry – the likes of
Netflix (broadcasting), Tesla (automotive),
Amazon (retail) and AirBNB (hospitality) –
were able to entirely re-shape their markets
and net incredible returns.
The next era
So what is the next chapter in the story?
How can the next evolution of the cloud
be defined? Anton Jacobsz, MD of African
value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited,
notes that his team has selected HyperGrid
as one of its key vendor partnerships due to
HyperGrid’s strong vision for the next era of
cloud computing.
“ECAAS can essentially be summed up by
saying that CIOs get all the control of a
private cloud environment but with the
efficiency, limitless scalability and rapid
ecosystem development of the public cloud.” • Full control: Compute, networking,
storage, applications and other services
are all located within your own data
centre, alleviating any concerns about
data privacy, governance or sovereignty
• Automated management: Though
all intelligence is held within your own
data centre, the in-house IT team is able
to hand-over full responsibility to their
partners (freeing the CIO’s team to focus
on strategic partnerships with business
stakeholders, new innovations, and new
revenue-generating opportunities)
• True consumption-based pricing:
Unlike leasing or subscription pricing, with
ECAAS you’re billed only for the resources
and applications that you use
• Orchestration across multiple clouds:
Whether you have data and services
located in one environment, or spread
across 10 different cloud platforms,
everything is effectively managed and
reported on in a consolidated fashion.
• On-demand resources delivered with
simplicity: As your needs evolve, you
can instantly add and remove new
services, applications or computing
resources as needed. With simplified
end-user interfaces, gaining access to
new infrastructure is as simple as clicking
a few buttons.
Rich refers to a recent blog written by
Jennifer Gill, VP, Content Marketing at
HyperGrid, which highlights the following key
characteristics of ECAAS: The cloud has certainly matured. Along
the way, we’ve made a few mis-steps and
taken some wrong turns and for many
large enterprises, their cloud landscape
“HyperGrid is passionate about the concept
of enterprise cloud-as-a-service, which we
feel reflects the growing maturity of the
cloud, incorporating all the lessons from the
past 20 years, and all the advances in the
technology and the enabling ecosystems,”
he said.
“Enterprise cloud-as-a-service – or ECAAS – is
the culmination of years of effort. It truly
addresses all business needs, nullifies all
potential concerns and allows the organisation
to imagine a world without limits.”
Pulling it all together
“HyperGrid’s main focus today is to
simplify IT by providing a highly secure
public cloud experience everywhere,
for any application on any cloud or any
infrastructure,” said Doug Rich, VP of EMEA
at HyperGrid. “And through ECAAS, we can
provide all the benefits of a public cloud
but on premises.
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has become complex, fractured and
expensive. Gartner research shows that large
organisations are managing on average 4.6
different cloud platforms.
But, Jacobsz said that with ECAAS, this
complexity can be abstracted: “The cloud
can finally start delivering on its grand
promises. We have come a long way in the
past two decades, and with ECAAS we’ll
position ourselves to take the next step.” n
ENTERPRISE
CLOUD-AS-
A-SERVICE
ADDRESSES
ALL BUSINESS
NEEDS, NULLIFIES
ALL POTENTIAL
CONCERNS AND
ALLOWS THE
ORGANISATION TO
IMAGINE A WORLD
WITHOUT LIMITS.
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