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6 Managed Services Predictions That Every Client Must Know

Author: Van Guard
by Van Guard
Posted: Aug 24, 2016

Where’s the Managed Service Provider (MSP) sector going in 2016? If you really do want to know, here are the top six predictions that are culled out from the interviews of industrial experts and other leading sources. So let’s get to know a thing or two about them.

The size of the managed service market is expanding

In reality, this forecast will give anyone the sector’s long-term view. The global managed service market will touch close to USD 229.59 billion by circa 2020. That’s a 10.20 percent of compound annual growth rate from USD 128.19 billion found in 2014. (This data is as per Mordor Intelligence—a market research company.)

Managed Cloud services is the future

Every leading yet small-sized IT support company believes to introduce a range of managed services for different third-party public clouds—Microsoft Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and Amazon Web Services. Particularly, all the forward-thinking MSPs will begin connecting the dots between Azure and Office 365 soon.

The rise of managed DevOps services

MSPs are a bit late to the DevOps confabs. However, only the leading MSPs have now begun introducing a suite of services to help customers accelerate and manage agile software development tasks and projects. For continuous software delivery, there has to be a well-built DevOps strategy, right? Indeed.

Presenting managed container solutions

All the leading MSPs—especially those focusing on enterprise customers and midmarket clients—have already started experimenting with Docker and other similar container services. With managed container solutions in their range, these MSPs will accelerate application rollouts and IT projects.

MSPs are big on Big Data

Some of the leading-edge MSPs will dabble in a range of managed services designed for key Big Data platforms such as Hadoop. And almost all the Hadoop providers such as MapR, Hortonworks, and Cloudera will work ever more closely with a selection of leading MSPs to not only monitor but also optimize the storage grids of this very platform. For every MSP who wants to be on the cutting edge, there is one question that it needs to answer: "How is the MSP enabling its customers/prospects to collect, store, manage, optimize, secure, and even monetize data?"

The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has gained ground

The IoT solutions are closely watched by MSPs so that they can empower their clients to understand, monetize, and make the most of such solutions. There are many IoT start-ups that are working every day to blend managed services with this newlfangled concept.

So here are the top six predictions that’ll most probably drive the MSPs of today toward their tomorrow. That’s why it’ll be a tad better to rely on those IT management service providers that are watching these industrial trends and that are following them as well. That’s because only such MSPs have the key to revolutionizing the existing suite of managed services.

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Vanguardtech is a leading IT support company in Calgary. We offers dedicated IT management services for all sized business at an affordable price.

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