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In 2006 Griffin wrote: "When the local loop is fast enough, cheap enough and reliable enough, most businesses will rent their remotely hosted desktop applications by the seat and by the month." We still stand by this today.
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How are we progressing on the hype cycle for cloud based applications? Have they taken over the world yet?
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Last month Griffin’s MD, Andrew Dickinson, used the metaphor of motorways and service stations to explain the relationship between Ethernet and private clouds. Griffin’s CTO, Adrian Sunderland follows up with a technical view point.
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Griffin has seen a surge in demand for Ethernet over the last few months and sees a huge potential for resellers to up-sell their broadband base to Ethernet, then to MPLS and eventually to Software as a Service.
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The SaaS business model is well accepted but there are still doubters about its place in the channel. For the sceptics, the SaaS business model still needs to be proven.
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Last month Andrew Dickinson wrote about the hype surrounding Cloud and what the opportunities are for the channel. He particularly highlighted that the reliability, performance and security of Internet connectivity are holding back many businesses from trusting all their data to the cloud. Finally, he suggested that the tremendous growth Griffin has experienced from the channel for MPLS is being driven by these very same concerns.
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Vendors are moving towards the ISV model, there's growth in cloud/virtualisation/data centres, growing demand for managed/professional services, mobility, new lifestyle demands and remote working - Change is on the horizon, is now the time to act and make a plan?
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This month Griffin’s CTO, Adrian Sunderland, provides an overview of what the cloud computing giants are doing and what this means for the channel.
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Griffin’s contribution to Cloud Computing Feature for Comms Dealer November Issue by Andrew Dickinson, MD, Griffin
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The long predicted move to "The Cloud" has finally started, signalling another disruptive shift in the SME market. Andrew Dickinson of Griffin makes the argument that not all channel entrepreneurs may be nimble and flexible enough to capitalise on these technological and behavioural changes.
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