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Cloudsourcing: Sourcing complete solutions for your business from the cloud

Current Situation

Enterprise adoption of the cloud is accelerating. Global cloud computing sales rose an estimated 21 percent to $56.3 billion last year, according to Gartner Inc. The cloud market may triple to more than $150 billion by 2013. More and more organizations want to run the majority of their IT infrastructure and applications in the cloud.

Enterprises are also changing how they consume the cloud. Early cloud adoption in most enterprises was business driven, opportunistic and edge. Over the last two years, this pattern has changed significantly. Now, cloud adoption is being jointly lead by IT and business. IT is looking at cloud as a way to drive innovation while keeping costs low. Enterprises are pursuing a much more thoughtful, architecture based, business case-driven approach to migrating to the cloud. With adoption of multiple cloud applications and platforms the need for integration, unified security and governance models has escalated. This means enterprises will need a new type of partner—someone who has deep expertise in cloud, can help mitigate risks and help innovate.

What is Cloudsourcing?

Cloudsourcing is sourcing complete solutions to run your business from the cloud—by knitting together cloud applications, cloud platforms, and cloud infrastructure. Each stage in the path towards complete cloudsourcing presents unique challenges but comes with step change in benefits. When you go from adopting point SaaS solutions to multiple cloud platforms, you need to deal with more complex data management, user management and governance issues. However, this will also come with step change in business agility and user effectiveness.

By running your entire business on cloud-based IT applications and services, cloudsourcing can dramatically lowers your IT costs.  And, running your business on a pre-integrated suite of cloud-based applications results in a better-integrated, more flexible and elastic technology foundation for your business operations.

Appirio's Solution for Cloudsourcing

Appirio offers a set of products and services that make cloudsourcing possible:

• Cloudsourcing solutions for IT Management: Cloudsourcing allows IT organizations to support the business with innovation while dramatically lowering costs, not just manage a data center and "keep the lights on"
• Cloudsourcing solutions for Professional Services Organizations: Cloudsourcing allows services firms to focus on their core competencies and get out of the business of running a data center, while benefiting from the lower TCO and business agility of running the entire business in the cloud

Case Study of a Serverless Enterprise

Running your business 100% on the cloud is different. We know: from the beginning we have run our own business as a serverless enterprise. We've grown our business 400% over the past 2 years, spent about 3% of our revenue on IT, and have no capital tied up in IT infrastructure. We've experienced the benefits of running our entire business in the cloud, and work with customers every day who are taking steps in that same direction. Learn more about the Appirio serverless infrastructure and the benefits we have enjoyed.

Case Study—Appirio as the Serverless Enterprise

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