The Cloud Opportunity
The enterprise is in transition to a new operating model, consuming and offering capabilities “as a service” to achieve unprecedented efficiency and agility. In this new era of cloud computing, there is a need for enterprise companies to work together to ensure an optimal, flexible and efficient ecosystem of suppliers and services.
Many enterprise-computing resources remain significantly underutilized, even with first generation server virtualization. In general, in-house IT operations retain substantial cost structures and are only just starting to capitalize on the opportunity to consume infrastructure, platforms and services on-demand.
| Current... | Future... |  |  | | Low utilization Levels
Inefficient workload density
Insufficient automation
Long provision times
High TCO
Cost allocation challenges | “Pay as you go” transparent cost structure
Right placed workloads
Self-service, on-demand provisioning model
Flexible and elastic scale up and down model
Decreased support costs due to automation
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Barriers to Success
The benefits of cloud computing, and its potential application in so many industry verticals, is creating a dramatic shift in the marketplace with many major suppliers of software and hardware reshaping around a cloud operating model. A lack of requirements from the buy-side of the equation will only lead to a repeat the past—opaque pricing, inconsistent offerings and a lack of alignment with buyer needs.
By organizing and clearly articulating buyers requirements, and then bringing buyers and sellers together to agree required standards, the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council seeks to accelerate the effective adoption of cloud computing on a global scale. The Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC) is shaping the future of enterprise IT by consolidating the requirements of the world’s largest enterprises within TM Forum, a not-for-profit, cross-industry association. ECLC sits at the heart of TM Forum’s Cloud Services Initiative Program.
Our Cloud Program Vision
TM Forum’s vision is to ensure acceleration of service standardization and commoditization in an effective and efficient marketplace of cloud computing services in all global geographies, through alignment with the needs of the world’s largest IT buyers.
Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council Goals
- To foster an effective and efficient marketplace for cloud compute infrastructure and services across all industry verticals and global geographies;
- Accelerate standardization and commoditization of cloud services, and identifying common commodity processes best consumed as a service;
- Solicit definition for standardized core and industry-specific SKUs for cloud services;
- Achieve transparency of cost, service levels and reporting across the ecosystem;
- Enable benchmarking of services across service providers and geographies;
- Enable vendor measurement against normalized and agreed service level metrics;
How to Join
The Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council is organized in industry verticals. Existing TM Forum members are welcome to join the appropriate vertical group by contacting Matthew Edwards, Director of the Cloud Services Initiative at medwards@tmforum.org.
If your company is not currently a member, please contact Apostolos Kallis, Senior Vice President of Account Management & Sales at akallis@tmforum.org. The Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council is just one of many benefits openly available to TM Forum members. Learn more about the benefits of TM Forum membership at www.tmforum.org/membership. |
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