In yesterday's New York Times, Quentin Hardy brought cloud consultants into the light in the process of discussing an upcoming merger between two large consulting firms, Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne. The takeaway from "Business Cloud Consulting is Consolidating" is 1) Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne are merging (under the name Cloud Sherpas), and 2) that computer consulting services are moving towards an increasingly cooperative, end-user-centered direction. Cloud-based technology favors user convenience over service-provider convenience, and this is a big mental shift for traditional hardware, software, and computing providers. Cloud service providers cannot maintain incompatible mindsets--incompatible with one another, and with customers' reasonable expectation that their business software simplifies operations. Cloud Sherpas focused on helping businesses transition into Google-produced productivity tools (the Google Apps cloud), and GlobalOne helped businesses transition into Salesforce.com's cloud. Naturally, Google and Salesforce are in favor of the recent merger: “This is another indication of the growth we’re seeing in our business,” said Ron Huddleston, the senior vice president for business alliances at Salesforce. “There is a vision here of a new kind of consultant, who can build collaborative services, connect companies to their customers, and in the longer term connect products themselves into a social network.” Not all consultants are provider-specific. Our cloud consultants recognize that each business has its own computing needs, and in the past few years, a multitude of cloud service providers have sprung up alongside Salesforce, Google, Rackspace, Amazon, and other major players. The biggest news in this article, from a consumer standpoint, is the possibility of receiving training and services in two major cloud technologies from the same source. We hate to toot our own horn, but this is a service we provide at Its-Your-Internet: we help you select the cloud service provider and package for your businesses, and should you want training or other recurring cloud technology training, we do that, too.
Its-Your-Internet extends warm congratulations to the newly-formed Cloud Sherpas. In the field of cloud-consulting, there is more than enough room, and we hope every business finds its own sherpa through the cloud. (Should you need one in New York, contact us for a good guide.)
