Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit North America 2012

Cloud computing is transforming the way that IT is bought and used. A ‚perfect storm‘ of conditions – economic, technological and cultural – make it irresistible. The cloud’s service-driven consumption model found early appeal among developers, and ad hoc usage predominated. As users journey beyond test and development and staging and begin to examine its use for production tasks, the cloud has shifted into the critical path of core IT strategies. With this shift, the expectations placed on service providers increase radically. Welcome to the next phase of cloud computing, where complex enterprise environments require that hosting providers, telcos and cloud platforms become far more attuned not only to economic models, but to compliance and privacy needs, migration strategies, quality assurance and availability. Tier1 and 451 Research Analysts will guide the discussion and provide in-depth market analysis on these topics.