Along with my colleague, Lori Salow Marshall, I’ve been working at both ends of the IT stack, so to speak — working on building out CSC Trusted Cloud Services offerings in the realm of infrastructure at the bottom, and orchestration at the top.
With cloud infrastructure, we’re trying to develop a point-click-and-buy service for virtual machines. Not every enterprise client can take advantage of this type of service from, say, Amazon or other public cloud providers of virtualization because of security or regulatory compliance mandates.
Recommending the optimal layout for an IT infrastructure has been the stock-in-trade of IT service providers and IT-consulting firms for a number of years. CSC has several different infrastructure evaluation methodologies – principal among them an assessment called OASIS.
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I tell people that the cloud starts at the bottom of the IT stack — on the infrastructure that is the backbone of the cloud. I’m going to explore this concept in my next two posts.
