The market for managed services has soared in recent years. According to Forum, the globally managed services industry was estimated at $185.98 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow to $356.24 billion by 2025. It is estimated that more than a quarter of all spending on IT will go to the cloud.
Far from resting on your laurels, MSP cloud services providers need to remain diligent — finding the best and most reliable service providers to protect their clients.
You Deserve a Cloud-Based MSP with Top-Notch Security Expertise
Security has always been a major concern for businesses around the world. Statistically, your inside person is your biggest threat. According to Techjury, more than 34% of businesses around the world are affected by insider threats each year. Since traditional MSPs store data in a physical location, the chances of being attacked from the inside are higher. Being able to offer secure, verified, cloud-based solutions can put you a step ahead of your competition when you’re trying to win new business.
Cloud-based MSPs enforce standard precautions for their platforms and the data they handle, such as authentication, access management and encryption. Following that, most businesses are ready to complement these safeguards with additional security mechanisms of their own to strengthen cloud data privacy and restrict access to confidential information in the cloud.
Clients Appreciate the Business Acceleration Provided by Cloud-Based MSPs
Everything happens faster with Cloud Managed Services, from setup to tracking to alerting. Since the actual hardware is already up and operating on the cloud, server provisioning is much quicker.
Cloud-based MSPs have everything at their fingertips, allowing them to complete projects on the spot, while conventional MSPs must order, wait, install and test — all of which takes up valuable time. While the cloud is becoming much more popular with businesses of all sizes, it’s not unusual for clients to have security concerns about shifting to the cloud. Having an experienced cloud provider offers you a layer of confidence that can be passed along to your clients.
Your security measures and those of your client should be fully in sync, allowing you to offer state-of-the-art solutions that will protect your client — and your business.
Creating Shared Responsibilities Enhances Disaster Recovery Planning
Working with your clients to create and outline your shared responsibilities can help bring deeper challenges to light. When you are working together to define what fully secure operations look like, you’re better able to plan for any contingencies, quickly filling in any gaps in your security frameworks.
Instead of finger-pointing and confusion, you can seamlessly work together in the event of a natural disaster or cybersecurity incident. Merely the effort of putting together these documents offers deeper insight into your operations for you both.
Protecting Sensitive Data with Secure Business Processes
Your prospective clients may or may not have deep insight into what it means to be “in the cloud”. When you’re able to pull back the shroud of mystery and help prospects understand how cloud-based networking and data storage truly works, you’re adding value to your presentation and potentially outpacing the competition to close sales.
You need the confidence of knowing that the cloud services your MSP offers are at least equal — if not superior — to those offered by the Big Three: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Want a provider who truly understands your business model and specializes in working only with MSPs? Call our team at (866) 883-8836 or chat live on our website: www.CloudServicesforMSPs.com.