Why Are So Many Businesses Opting for Managed Services?
If you’re hesitating to handover your cloud environment responsibilities to a third party, you’re not alone. But you are certainly in a minority. The challenges involved in recruiting and training a dedicated team, keeping them and your cloud updated, staying abreast of the latest developments in cloud technology that you need to stay competitive, can suck up energy, time and efficiency like a black hole. Which is why more and more organizations are choosing to outsource their clouds to external Managed Services providers.
In-house Team vs Managed Services
If you want autonomy, total transparency, and complete control of your cloud, this is definitively the way to go. Organizations with the resources and expertise may well opt to keep their cloud responsibilities in house, choosing to have a dedicated team manage their cloud environment.
While this may work well for large conglomerates, not many small and medium businesses have the budgets or resources or skills to build a dedicated team that’s up to scratch.
For such organizations—and they form the bulk of businesses across the world—Managed Service Providers are a cost-effective and efficient way to get the best of cloud, without cloud responsibilities getting in the way of business demands.
Benefits of Managed Cloud Services
- Leaner payrolls
- Fixed recurring cost
- Automatic future-proofing of your cloud environment
- Better Security (Enforceable through SLAs)
- Better workload management, as per your business needs and goals
