Tag: Public cloud
Hybrid clouds spark need for managed platform engineering services
The latest public cloud services market report from International Data Corp. (IDC) finds that revenue grew 23 percent year over year to reach $545.8 billion in 2022. The bulk of those revenues were generated by software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms (45 percent),...
On-premises IT environments remain popular
While there’s no doubt there’s been an acceleration in the number of workloads being deployed on public clouds, managed service providers (MSPs) shouldn’t assume that this activity is coming at the expense of workloads being deployed in on-premises IT environments....
The cloud opportunity for MSPs extends well into on-premises IT environments
There’s no doubt that the rate application workloads are moving into the public clouds is starting to accelerate. However, it is less clear what the biggest opportunities are for managed service providers (MSPs). There is money to be made by...
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...
MSPs as my co-pilot: How managed services are evolving
With the rate at which workloads have been moving public clouds, it may not come as a surprise to managed service providers (MSPs) that capital spending in hyperscale environments is increasing. A survey of 200 IT decision makers published by...
Smart MSPs follow the data in the age of the cloud
Despite all the momentum cloud computing has enjoyed for the past ten years, around 80 percent of all applications are still running in on-premises IT environments. The trend that managed service providers (MSPs) need to close track is the rate...
MSPs need to decide where to focus their cloud efforts
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have pulled away from the rest of the cloud service provider pack. In terms of market share, Microsoft as witnessed by its most recent financial results is making gains to the increased consumption of...
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...
Microsoft CTO sees managed services as the key to future partner success
Cloud computing is making IT so inexpensive and accessible that soon, there won’t be any real profit margins unless an IT solution is delivered as part of a new application or significantly transforms an existing business process. That’s the wake-up...
On-Premise IT Thanks to Automation Starts to Achieve Cost Parity with Public Clouds
Managed service providers (MSPs) have a complicated relationship with cloud service providers (CSPs). On the one hand, the massive number of workloads running on public clouds clearly helps drive demand for managed services. At the same time, however, CSPs have...
