Cloud Technology Articles

Cloud hosting is an excellent solution for small businesses with ever-changing office environments and employees working at home. In a recent Forbes article, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said,  “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months.” Sometimes, business relationships sour and cloud providers do not provide the same service level you need to satisfy your customers. In other cases, local cloud providers are being gobbled up by global conglomerates, resulting in less local support and expertise. What should you do if your cloud provider starts to have issues?

In 2021, one of the top requests for MSPs will be continued support as clients fully engage with the cloud. Migrating data and key business applications to the cloud have been a strong revenue stream for MSPs and a great tool to support today’s remote and mobile workforce. The cloud has brought flexibility, efficiency, improved productivity, and more reasonable costs to your clients, as this coming year will continue this trend.

In times of financial strain, IT budgets can, unfortunately, be one of the first line items to go. With so many things up in the air for 2021, business leaders will need to inspect their budgets with extra scrutiny. Putting off IT expenses can create what techies call technical debt. Technical debt, also referred to as tech debt, code debt, or design debt, describes a situation when technical quality is sacrificed in exchange for a speedier delivery. Regardless of the “why,” going into technical debt can become a black hole, affecting more aspects of your IT program than expected.

COVID-19 changed everything. We’re hoping that the COVID vaccine will also change things, but probably not back to the way things were a year ago. Remote workers, anywhere anytime access and an ever-changing mobile workforce are here to stay. The trend of moving all types of goods and services online for convenience and safety is also expected to be around for a long while.

“We are delighted to partner with One Tree Planted, who we’ve been admiring for a while now, through their efforts to rebuild forests after natural disasters,” said Senior Vice President Jeanne DeWitt. “My husband David (Hood) and I had a wish to build a business that could give back to the planet, and even before we met, both had a desire to help with wildlife rehabilitation and supporting their habitats.”

The cloud offers us amazing advantages in the world of technology: accessibility, security, efficiency and accommodations for today’s remote workforce. We’re happy to report that VMWare has reached a critical mass in cloud presence with over 15 million enterprise workloads hosted in the cloud. This news was announced at their annual conference. Let’s talk about the options for migrating VMWare to the cloud today, especially as a tool to accommodate today’s remote workers.

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.