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Date posted: 8th October 2015
More and more IT leaders are in agreement that the cloud is a powerful platform to improve business agility. However it is critical that cloud services are managed properly. Failure to execute effectively on your cloud migration or management can lead to some serious issues for your business.
For this reason many IT directors especially in smaller to mid sized companies with limited resources are turning to Cloud Managed Services providers or brokers in order to migrate, optimize and manage their cloud applications. There is currently a flood of these providers on the market (probably calling and emailing you every day) but what variables are important in choosing the right cloud management provider?
Security is top of mind for most IT leaders (and their CEO) today. It should be at the top of the list for anyone looking to migrate to the cloud or choose a cloud services broker. If you put your applications and trust in a company that is not secure enough, it can lead to disaster for a SMB sized business. The best cloud managed services providers integrate with the leaders in public cloud such as Amazon Web Services. They also partner their management platform with a Security Operations Center and Amazon Inspector in order to log all activity and data to associate it back to threats.
If your applications don’t work they why even bother migrating to the cloud? Check to see if a smooth integration works with your web applications or other popular cloud based software such as Office 365 and SalesForce.
The cloud provides you almost unlimited computing capacity, but not at a limited cost. The reality is most SMB sized business do not need as much compute as Amazon Web Services can provide. The problem is many also do not understand exactly what they need to run their business. Here is another area where a trusted Cloud Managed Services provider can help. They should provide tools in order to plan your cloud workloads, optimize costs, and ensure you are maximizing the ROI from the cloud investment.
Netfast is a Cloud Managed Services Provider enabling its Mid-Tier Enterprise customers to accelerate their Digital Business transformation with managed Cloud and Mobile solutions.
Our Cloud Migration and Manager platform integrates directly with leading public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure along with leading applications such as Office 365, Sharepoint and SalesForce in order to help client maximize the ROI from their cloud investment.
As a leading cloud services broker in the New York City Metro area Netfast is well-positioned to help you as the IT leader become the hero of the business by downsizing your massive data center spend and achieve a more agile, digital, just-in-time delivery of IT services for your business.
