What is Cloud Managed Services? It starts with the simple truth that every cloud has to be managed by someone. Like your retirement savings or your car, it doesn’t manage or maintain itself. So every business faces two main options:
- It can do everything itself. It can hire and train experts to perform all the complex tasks required to manage cloud infrastructure and tools and application stacks. Or it can manage and mediate among multiple providers: say, one for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and a second for single-tenant servers or VMware in a colocation facility, and a third for support.
- It can employ a trusted partner to manage all or most of its cloud.
Option 2 is managed cloud. It’s a service that allows businesses to tap the power of cloud computing without the inconvience of becoming an expert in everything. Companies that use managed cloud can focus on their core business — on building great applications and other new products and landing new customers. They can stay fast and lean, rather than having to swell their payroll with large teams of ops engineers and system administrators and other experts to manage IT that doesn’t differentiate their company.