Media Mavens report on Monster Merger

This has been quite a week for GlobalOne.  Actually, it has been quite a year – but this week stands out with the major announcement of our company merging with Cloud Sherpas.  For those of you who haven’t yet heard, we announced on Tuesday, March 6^th the joining together of Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne to become one of the largest Cloud Service Providers focused on helping customers adopt and enhance cloud solutions.  It is obvious from the coverage we have received that there is tremendous interest in the marketplace for companies to move into the cloud.

Coverage ranged from the WSJ noting that as “an international cloud service provider, (the merged company will be) helping businesses in the US and Asia Pacific move their computing to the cloud,” to Talking Cloud saying “A blockbuster cloud services provider (CSP) merger involving Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne, potentially forming a next-generation cloud consulting company.”  Brandon Butler, Network World,(Cloud consultants Cloud Sherpas, Global One merge) quoted Jeffrey Kaplan’s perspective: “The SaaS-based cloud industry has proliferated and is beginning to consolidate — the consultancy world is a shadow of that,”  Kaplan says. “It’s all about moving from best of breed offerings to more stand-alone, all-encompassing, strategic suppliers of services.”

And a favorite is the one from Channel Nomics  where Larry Walsh called our “Monster Merger” the “Deal of the Year” so far in 2012, saying “Perhaps it (the merged company) will draw the new blueprint for what solutions providers should be in the cloud era.”

What do you think such a blueprint should be?  What are your expectations from a strategic cloud service provider like us?

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