Managed Cloud Services: Enhancing Flexibility and Manageability

The cloud computing technology was introduced in late 2007, since then it has captured the imagination of companies all around the world. Currently, cloud services are increasingly being used for multiple purposes, such as, network monitoring, server monitoring, website monitoring, and custom monitoring.

The shift towards cloud services has increased due to its important features.

Companies avail cloud technology primarily by the following means:

• They rent the cloud infrastructure from one of the major providers. These companies manage the entire cloud infrastructure by themselves. To make this possible, these companies have to hire engineers and technicians who are expert in cloud technology.

• The second option for companies is to hire multiple providers. In this option, the companies hire cloud infrastructure from one provider and hire cloud managing services from other provider. This option has cost-effectiveness but it lacks accountability.

• Lastly, the companies can get the services of managed cloud services provider.

The last option is a highly cost effective option in many ways. First of all, despite the shift towards cloud technologies, the companies currently don’t possess expert workforce that is capable of effectively dealing with cloud based technology. Now, the management of cloud services require a great deal of technical expertise, and therefore by opting for the last option you’d be saving a great deal on staff hiring and management costs. Other than this, you will also be saving all the money required for network maintenance since all your cloud based network monitoring needs would be fulfilled by your hired service.

With cloud technology, you can have anytime and anywhere access of your cloud stored data. Not only that, you can also make any changes to your existing data and stored the update in remote centralized network. This instant access of data provides great flexibility to the functioning of the company and can be great benefiting factor.

Managed cloud services offer a great deal of payment and plan flexibility. The company can always select the pay-per-service option or it can also go for a comprehensive plan that takes care of all the cloud computing needs of the company. The comprehensive plan offers services, such as, cloud based network monitoring, security protection, and many other services.

By opting for managed cloud services, you ensure that your company’s data is getting the best security protection. These services maintain the data of many different companies so in order to avoid any unfortunate incident, they rigidly follow high security protocol that is bound to keep your data protected. In any case, if your system gets disrupted, these services makes sure that it is resumed with minimum down time.