The Changing Role of PS in the Cloud World

IT departments are starting to change the way they provide services to their users. We are seeing more adoption of SaaS delivery of applications and moving servers and storage to offsite providers like AWS, RackSpace, Drop Box, Box, etc. The reasons revolve around economics and flexibility. Lower to non-existent up front capital costs, lower cost of ownership and the ability to expand or contract compute and storage resources as needed, quickly and easily.

All of this change will have an affect on what IT related PS is delivered and how that delivery is made.

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What is IT Professional Services

In the world of Information Technology (“IT”), Professional Services (“PS”) generally refers to services that are delivered by a person(s) who is a specialist in a technical arena. This is a broad category, as well it should be, given the great variety of  technologies in use and how they are applied in any IT department. It is because of this great variety that there is a need for PS.
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