Monday, 2 November 2015 Blog ehdf

Managed IT Services To See Increased Demand In The Age Of Cloud

In today’s business environment, organizations need to adopt new technologies in order to expand their operations and improve productivity and customer experience. Even small to mid-size organizations will not be able to function, let alone scale-up their businesses without a strong IT infrastructure to support their growth. Many companies do not have the required resources to support a dedicated in-house IT team. Faced with mounting costs and an increasingly complex IT environment to manage, organizations are now more than ever looking at Managed IT Services as an alternative to in-house IT infrastructure management.

Why Managed IT Services?

Managed IT Services offer companies multiple benefits at the strategic, operational and financial level:

– At the strategic level, it allows companies to focus and leverage their resources towards their core business activities, rather than spending too much time on mundane operational activities.

– At the operational level, it offers the skills and expertise of a service provider to competently manage complex IT Infrastructure and data centre requirements.

– At the financial level, Managed IT Services reduce total cost of ownership and provides the benefit of a subscription based OPEX model.

Managed Cloud

Many organisations are now ready to take advantage of the benefits of Cloud Hosting such as the quick deployment of IT resources, shared resource usage, and the ability to monitor usage and pay for only what they use. Managed Cloud allows businesses to tap the power of Cloud Computing without the pain of becoming an expert in everything. Companies that use Managed Cloud can focus on their core business — on building great applications and other new products, and acquiring new customers.

Gartner predicts that from 2013 to the end of 2017, $3.8 billion will be spent on cloud services in MENA region. As cloud computing has moved from hype to the business mainstream, the regional adoption of cloud technologies and virtual storage solutions will come to the forefront in the coming years.

Today, customers are coping with complex IT environments that the cloud has introduced. BYOD and the intrusion of mobile computing devices into the enterprise have further added to the complexity. This makes it important for traditional cloud infrastructure service providers to include Managed Cloud Services to their portfolio. In fact, we are witnessing a huge demand for Managed Cloud Services across the region!