**NEW RESEARCH** Skyscape and Adapt join forces in Government cloud

As customers start to shift more infrastructure into a cloud environment they will increasingly need suppliers that can provide the enabling services. The pure-play cloud firms are steering clear of providing these ‘wrap-around’ services, instead maintaining laser-like focus on their product and pulling in partners for the complementary services.

Skyscape is a Government accredited provider of public cloud services and in January it announced it would be partnering with managed services provider, Adapt, to work jointly in the government market.

Given where the market is in terms of its evolution, services partners now have an important role to play in helping buyers to get past the ‘first base’ of public cloud use, moving them on from the straightforward activities (e.g. test and development) to take on the development of more critical and complex programmes. Indeed, it could be argued that this type of services provider has an even more significant role to play in the government sector where IT resource is typically stretched to the maximum and/or where large parts of the IT function have been outsourced in the past.

Together we think Skyscape/Adapt could prove to be a disruptive force amongst the established community of traditional infrastructure services providers - stripping out significant cost from the provision of hosting services.

In this research note we take a closer look at Skyscape, the market it is operating in and the competition it, and its, partners face.

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Posted by HotViews Editor at '08:28'