Vendor Analysis
published on Sep 09, 2016
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes CSC's offerings and capabilities in Cloud Infrastructure Migration and Management.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Cloud Infrastructure Migration and Management Vendor Assessment for CSC is a comprehensive assessment of CSC’s cloud infrastructure migration and management offerings and capabilities designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of IT services and identifying vendor suitability for cloud infrastructure migration and management services
- Vendor marketing, sales and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the cloud infrastructure migration and management sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of CSC’s cloud infrastructure migration and management offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strength, including:
- Revenue estimates
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis and new developments
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses and outlook.
Key Findings & Highlights:
CSC launched its first cloud initiative in February 2009, with its first suite of cloud services offerings following in June 2009. In February 2011, CSC introduced CSC BizCloud, an on-premise private cloud billed as a service, as well as CloudCompute, a public cloud offering.
In October 2013, CSC announced that it was acquiring cloud management company, ServiceMesh. The core asset of the acquisition was the ServiceMesh Agility Platform, which now forms the foundation of the CSC Agility Platform cloud management platform.
CSC has cloud infrastructure migration and management offerings across cloud and infrastructure consulting, cloud migration services, hybrid cloud management, CSC BizCloud private cloud and public cloud management leveraging CSC Agility Platform.
CSC has ~56k global resources. NelsonHall estimates that its cloud infrastructure migration and management capability consists of ~1k FTEs. CSC has 17 cloud data centers with six in North America, six in Europe and five in Asia.