Delivering and managing cloud services are emerging as the most important opportunities of the decade for service providers, technology providers and enterprise CIOs.  However ‘the cloud’ is not a single entity, but rather separate islands with their own unique authentication and authorization, provisioning, administration, licensing and support characteristics.  With many different clouds serving many different needs, building a cloud deployment strategy around a few offerings today raises the risk of managing services stovepipes tomorrow. 

For enterprise IT organizations, these challenges will increase exponentially as the number of private and public clouds they’re deploying, consuming and managing proliferate.  Enforcing uniform compliance with corporate security policies and privacy regulations, consolidating license and user management, integrating self-service fulfillment and administration into existing IT processes and assets, consolidating purchasing and departmental charge-backs, and ensuring a high quality of service and support for their users across disparate cloud computing islands are just some of the issues to consider. 

Service providers are ideally positioned to act as the gateway between enterprises’ private clouds and public cloud services.  Many service providers will evolve to become cloud aggregators and distributors, leveraging their networks and data centers to provide an interconnected cloud computing grid that will combine cloud services delivery with carrier-class quality of service and enterprise-grade security.  They will deliver infrastructure and application clouds from their own data centers, as well as from third-party providers, with unified access and life-cycle management for their customers. 

Technology providers are also embracing the cloud as a means to offer cloud services that extend and differentiate their existing products, enabling them to increase customer profitability and penetrate new market segments.  Many will extend today's AppStore model by creating private-branded marketplaces that encompass their development partners' value-added services and offering them to their customers and through their channels.

The Unified Services Cloud is an architectural, business and IT operations model for enabling, delivering and managing different cloud services within a federated and consistent provisioning, billing, security, administration and support framework.  For enterprises, this model will enable them to unify cloud services management so they can speed up innovation, collaborate on a global scale, reduce operational costs and grow their bottom line.  For service providers, it will enable them to unify the delivery of cloud services and differentiate their networks as a true cloud computing platform.  And for technology providers, cloud services delivery provides an opportunity to provide value-added services that help differentiate their core offerings to gain market share, increase customer life-time profitability and access new channels of distribution.  The stakes have never been higher.

Jamcracker's Services Delivery Network (JSDN) enables different types of cloud service offerings and deployment options to be delivered with a single point of provisioning, access, security, billing, administration and support.  The JSDN is powered by a highly scalable and distributed architecture; with technology, operations, support infrastructure, market knowledge, and services delivery business processes established over a decade of definition, development and refinement.