Philbert Shih on Datapipe’s Trebuchet
Source: TechTarget
Philbert Shih, managing director at Structure Research Ltd., a research and consulting firm based in Toronto, said he views Trebuchet as a move to automate best practices for moving customer applications to third-party hyperscale clouds, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. Shih follows developments at Datapipe, although he said he was not specifically briefed by the company on Trebuchet.
Shih said many of the firms that help customers “onboard and get running on AWS” are doing so via consulting services — essentially manual processes — that involve considerable human intervention. In general, the task of taking on-premises systems and turning them into cloud-based enterprise applications can prove daunting for services providers and their customers.
“MSPs are now going to try to automate that as much as possible, which makes complete sense.”
Shih said automation benefits the service provider and the client. For service providers, automation boosts operating efficiency, which drives margins and makes a given service more profitable. For customers, automation leads to faster deployment times and fewer mistakes.
MSPs are now going to try to automate that as much as possible, which makes complete sense.
“The beauty of automation … when it comes to infrastructure … is that it is a win-win for provider and customer,” Shih said.
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