The provisition to companies of care-free computing resources. It can be a large company that deals purely with hosting larger coporate or government services which use larger amounts of data or traffic or a start up which deals with the SME or public consumer markets. They can have access to utility-style computing that means they can plug-in and use whatever software or services they need and get secure access to data and applications from remote data centres virtualised ‘in the cloud’.
Clients do not need to have anything to do with managing data, supporting applications or investing in hardware. No expensive internal IT resource, either people or kit. There is no need for any capital investment; and you can scale up and down your requirements in line with business growth. It is totally flexible. Services provided include Software, Infrastructure, Platforms, Managed services, Hosting, Applications, IP Telephony services, Storage, Security and Virtualisation solutions.
Products mainly included within the Data centre industries are VMWare, Citrix, Cisco, Windows, Microsoft, Linux, Red Hat, HP and IBM
A competitive market positions can range from internal to field and some of the higher paid Business Development and Account Management roles.
There is also a current demand for technical professionals within the Data centre industries which will require qualifications and experience using the right products.