Orange Business Services, a division of corporate telecommunications company, announced it will launch twelve o’clock service cloud computing over the next 24 months, covering areas such as real-time applications, collaboration, security, infrastructure, network ready for cloud and vertical solutions for certain industries.

According to the company, services include advice step by step during the transition to cloud-based services, also considering the hybrid models, more suitable for many companies.

It’s in the company’s plans also supply and manage critical business applications and infrastructure as a service, such as single point of contact with the client. They will be billed according to use and customers will have a portal for self-service.

The company currently manages 12 thousand servers for corporate clients and plans to design, build and operate private clouds to large multinationals.

The advantage of cloud computing is that it offers a huge market opportunity for telecommunications companies. And that has to do with the nature of the service.

Customers can define exactly what they want to buy. Software as a service provides only the functionality of the application, without the user even aware of the hardware that hosts offering a platform with a big range of services and software. The infrastructure is itself a service, with storage, computing cycles, all on demand.

The second advantage, perhaps most important, is the possibility that customers have to define how they want to consume and when. Users can take care of their own supply chain because of the flexible characteristic of cloud computing, which makes possible to increase the capacity according with their needs with the speed of a click.

Therefore, cloud computing is more than a fad. Although few still declare use, a good portion of those already seriously study the adoption.

Via: Computer World.