Executive Update

Outsourcing to the Cloud

Posted May 6, 2014 | Leadership | Technology |

Today, cloud services are the reincarnated, super-charged version of ASP. In the current decade, cloud has proliferated into many derivatives of XaaS, or "anything as a service" (e.g., SaaS -- software as a service, PaaS -- platform as a service, IaaS -- infrastructure as a service, and DRaaS -- disaster recovery as a service). The derivatives of XaaS are many and increasing daily. There are so many forecasts, it's impossible to determine the market size and growth trajectories.

About The Author
Sara Cullen
Dr. Sara Cullen is Managing Director of The Cullen Group, a boutique firm offering consulting, publications, and education regarding commercial agreements, a Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and a Research Associate at the London School of Economics. She was former National Partner at Deloitte in Australia, where she ran the outsourcing consulting division and was the Global Thought Leader for outsourcing. Dr. Cullen specializes in the… Read More
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