Cloud Front Office

It's service world: More thing companies buying service companies

So Xerox is getting into the business process outsourcing world. Essentially they want to cloudify their existing products. Same thing Dell needs to do.

The trend is clear as hardware vendors look at the large-scale computer outsourcers and see in them a captive audience of customers for their gear, but also a growth opportunity in delivering data and information technology assets via the web.

Last week Dell said it would buy Perot Systems and the year before HP purchased EDS, another outsourcer. Both moves were efforts to get deeper into the cloud, providing everything from software to infrastructure as a service.

via gigaom.com

VMworld.com: newScale's VMworld Blog: Will Provision For Food: The Tale of Steve the Server Guy

This is hilarious.  It's Friday, enjoy!

VMworld.com: newScale's VMworld Blog: Will Provision For Food: The Tale of Steve the Server Guy.

Paul Maritz, VMware CEO - General Session Keynote Mentions Service Catalog

Paul Maritz presented their view of the Front Office of IT, that includes Service Catalog, Self-service, charge back and service profiles.  This is all about Offer a Cloud.

In other words, they have adopted newScale's Front Office vision; which is great.

However, based on the Lifecycle Manager lab that I attended last night, their 'catalog' is still very much focused on the back-end mechanics. It's a good step but has a few years to mature.

So overall, I'm very pleased by this development. It validates what I've been writing for a while. IT needs to be able to make offers to manage demand. Cloud is all about standard offerings.