Cloud

Smart customers squeeze cloud comrades

Local providers are having their feet held to the fire by customers wanting cloud services. They’re up to the challenge.

01 February 2013

How can a local service provider hope to compete with Amazon, Rackspace or any one of a number of advanced cloud providers around the world? Local vendor representatives say they’re doing well by concentrating on things that overseas websites cannot do: local touch, focussed delivery and learning from the mistakes of others. For Richard Vester, director of cloud services at EOH, he’s seeing success from the basics.

“The biggest reason we’re starting to get it right is we’re reducing the cost and changing the dynamic of how traditional services have always been delivered out of datacentres.”

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