White Paper Abstract:
This IDC white paper examines service providers' opportunities and challenges in the emerging arena of cloud/data center-delivered service offerings. The enterprise networking/IT landscape is changing as new technologies, evolving service delivery architectures, disruptive business models, and mounting cost pressures transform the way businesses procure and consume communications, IT, and application services. This document presents a high-level view of the potential of data center-delivered cloud services to transform the process of service delivery and creation and thus expand the service provider value proposition.