Cloud broker or cloud provider: Who says you can't be both?

TechTarget

...Appirio, a cloud service broker, offers its customers both a pure advisory service and a technology focus, with integration capabilities among its public cloud provider partners -- Google, Amazon, Salesforce and Workday -- said Glenn Weinstein, Appirio's chief technology officer. "Regardless of what we are helping our clients with, we always bring to bear our own Cloud Enablement Suite (CES) -- Appirio's offering that organizes the entire integration project, everything from implementation to monitoring of their cloud platforms," he said.

In addition to CES, Appirio has three Software-as-a-Service offerings for its clients that work with Google, Salesforce and Workday platforms. Appirio's Cloud Factor ties together Google Apps with Gmail, and the broker's Cloud Sync and Cloud Storage offerings link Salesforce, Google Apps and Amazon Web Services to extend the capabilities of each platform for customers, Weinstein said. "Appirio is filling two big spaces for customers by offering both the product-ized integration across cloud systems, and also a customized service for managing cloud platforms," he said...

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