Cloud Technology Articles

One of the most sweeping trends in IT today is virtualization. Naturally, many companies look to virtualization to take advantage of their physical hardware. Virtualization saves technology budget dollars and provides a more flexible, scalable environment. It’s a way for your clients to do less with more, which is always a popular business philosophy. However, the journey to virtualization isn’t simple. One key factor lies in choosing the right hardware, software and services.

When the cloud-first emerged as a brand new technological invention, most of us were skeptical. Common questions included: how would security be guaranteed, how would access be efficient and what should we think about potential regulation. Fortunately for us, those questions have been mostly resolved and hundreds of thousands of businesses have made cloud hosting and access part of their fundamental IT infrastructure. As an MSP, you should be especially grateful for cloud services, and the limitless additional sources of revenue they provide.

With the onset of the global pandemic of COVID-19, many industries are contracting. Healthcare is not one of them. Global healthcare spending is expected to increase 5 percent year over year through 2023, according to a study published by Deloitte. Growth in healthcare spending means growth in healthcare opportunities for MSPs and other service providers.

As business leaders, it’s critical that you begin to work on the business, not just in the business. In other words, get out of the sell it, do it, sell it, do it never-ending cycle.

The future of managed services — and of technology services overall — resides in the cloud. Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecasted to grow 18.4% in 2021 to total $304.9 billion. This figure reflects an increase from $257.5 billion in spending in 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. As business leaders continue to navigate the global pandemic of COVID-19, an ever-growing reliance on cloud services has reinforced cloud adoption to be the “new normal.”

As businesses become more technologically advanced, company leaders continue to look for ways to maximize uptime and productivity, while protecting themselves from the unthinkable. Stretched clusters are a relatively new development helping businesses accomplish both and elevating corporate cloud and virtualization strategies to the next level. While there are many organizations able to provide more traditional virtualization paradigms, see why a VMWare stretched cluster may be a valuable addition to your cloud offerings.

When You Think of the Cloud, Chances Are, Three Cloud Providers Come to Mind: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. After All, They’ve Dominated the Market for the Past 5 Years… Despite the fact that the “big three” cloud providers have dominated the public cloud market for the past 5 years, they might not necessarily be the best choice for MSPs looking to provide cloud services for their clients. Why? Well, we’re certainly not knocking their capabilities. After all, they’re the best-known cloud vendors around for a reason. They each have a large ecosystem of third-party tools, integrations, and applications built around them, which makes them a fairly reliable source for cloud services.

Your perception of the cloud could be affecting your judgment about adopting it, selling it and proposing it to your clients. It could be affecting your clients’ judgment as well. Myths about the cloud create confusion for business leaders and for technical folks. Let’s discuss the top four myths perpetually floating around about cloud adoption, migration, and hosting.

When businesses look for help with their IT, these qualities currently top their wish lists. Technology is rapidly evolving, and MSPs must respond to market demands to keep up. Over the past several years, MSPs have evolved from offering break/fix services to providing proactive, secure outsourced technology management, and they have grown their businesses by offering peace of mind for their clients. They have grown their service offerings to include virtual CIO services, consulting and project management and VOIP solutions. But what’s next? What innovation should MSPs focus on for 2021 and beyond?

Cybersecurity threats rob small businesses of millions of dollars every day. While many people think the cloud is less secure than on-premise computing, the opposite is the truth. Many industry leaders argue that the cloud is a more secure option for a variety of reasons. Our technical support engineers are experts in cloud security, working with cloud issues every day. We focus on business continuity and how to recover from a cloud security incident. It’s also important to keep intruders out of your clients’ computing environment and protect their hardware with modern tools. How do you secure the cloud, and how can it protect your client’s IT infrastructure?