Capgemini helps clients move towards cloud

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 18:25

Business IT - Technology

A major IT consulting and outsourcing firm is packaging a collection of services intended to help clients take advantage of cloud computing and other current infrastructure trends.

Capgemini's 'infostructure transformation services' are aimed at assisting clients to move to an on-demand model of IT infrastructure using data centre optimisation, virtualisation, unified communications and collaboration, and cloud computing and services.

Infostructure is the company's term for an organisation's virtualised applications portfolio, infrastructure and data.

"CIOs are under pressure to deliver sustainable cost-reduction whilst providing value-for-money opportunities for growth and differentiation. New business models are disrupting the manner in which computing capability is deployed and procured, perhaps more importantly the explosion of new cloud services creates the notion of the 'Enterprise Apps Store', which we believe will fundamentally change the means by which companies assemble solutions," said David Boulter, vice president, global infostructure transformation services.

Although Capgemini's concept of the Enterprise Apps Store may have some parallels with Apple's App Store for iPhone and iPod touch (and soon iPad) software, it's actually a different sort of beast.

Capgemini uses the term to describe "an ecosystem of niche software-as-a-service providers, targeted at a specific sector or type of enterprise." This implies a degree of interoperability between applications.

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