Tag: hybrid cloud

High demand for managed cloud services bodes well for MSPs

High demand for managed cloud services bodes well for MSPs

A survey of 500 IT decision-makers from North America, the United Kingdom, Benelux, and Australia finds that 93 percent plan to prioritize investing in cloud-managed services in the next 12 months, with respondents claiming cloud-managed services could increase productivity by...

/ November 28, 2023
Demand for managed cloud services continues to grow

Demand for managed cloud services continues to grow

The managed cloud services market is forecasted to reach $60.7 billion in revenue by 2027 after growing at a 12 percent compound annual rate. The bulk of those managed services are naturally going to be provided by the cloud service...

/ October 11, 2023
Hybrid cloud automation creates MSP opportunity

Hybrid cloud automation creates MSP opportunity

IT teams are starting to conclude that cloud automation has become too much of a good thing. A global survey of 535 IT leaders conducted by Broadcom finds that more than 81 percent have multiple cloud automation solutions in place,...

/ September 13, 2023
Rise of hybrid cloud computing creates training challenge for MSPs

Rise of hybrid cloud computing creates training challenge for MSPs

A report published by S&P Global Market Intelligence finds well over half of organizations (57 percent) are now pursuing some form of a hybrid cloud computing strategy, with 39 percent of organizations reporting they are actively implementing that strategy. In...

/ November 19, 2021
Hybrid clouds will require lots of external IT expertise

Hybrid clouds will require lots of external IT expertise

The rate at which organizations have been moving workloads to the cloud has clearly accelerated in the last year, primarily because the COVID-19 pandemic made it challenging to deploy applications in an on-premises IT environment. However, it’s not like on-premises...

/ February 17, 2021
Hybrid cloud computing comes to MSPs

Hybrid cloud computing comes to MSPs

By now, it’s apparent that no single provider of cloud services is likely to dominate the market any time soon. A recent survey of 100 IT executives at Global 2000 companies conducted by Goldman Sachs finds slightly more organizations are...

/ January 15, 2020
Shift to the hybrid cloud drives increased reliance on MSPs

Shift to the hybrid cloud drives increased reliance on MSPs

Just about everyone agrees that more application workloads will be moving into the cloud. The only real question now, is to what degree. A survey of 508 IT professionals conducted by Internap (INAP), a provider of managed services, finds that...

/ December 3, 2019
Hybrid cloud computing opportunity starts to manifest for MSPs

Hybrid cloud computing opportunity starts to manifest for MSPs

Most IT organizations want to embrace hybrid cloud computing, but most are far away from achieving that goal. In fact, a survey of 2,650 IT professionals conducted by the research firm Vanson Bourne, on behalf of Nutanix, suggests a large...

/ November 19, 2019
MSPs need to embrace Kubernetes to drive hybrid cloud computing

MSPs need to embrace Kubernetes to drive hybrid cloud computing

Hybrid cloud computing seems to be one of those goals everyone wants to achieve, but no one is quite sure how to accomplish. Most cloud computing platforms are managed today in isolation from one another. If a managed service provider...

/ September 12, 2019
A need to optimize cloud spending opens the door for MSPs

A need to optimize cloud spending opens the door for MSPs

The more business and IT leaders worry about cloud costs, the more relevant managed service providers become. As far as cloud spending is concerned, the level of financial oversight being applied by organizations is slim to none. In the name...

/ February 28, 2019