Overview

The agile nature of Cloud technologies and cost benefits have given wings to enterprises by allowing them to increase the pace of their innovations.

Businesses are utilising cloud infrastructure:

• To access the raw computing hardware over the internet i.e. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
• To develop, run, and manage applications by utilizing the platform-based services on cloud (PaaS)
• Running business applications on the cloud, utilizing Software as a Services (SaaS), backup the data in cloud.
• Using cloud as a disaster recovery service for their on-premise infrastructure

In a nutshell, cloud has become an integral part of an organizations’ business strategy. But it is difficult to realize the actual value and true potential of the cloud if the organization lacks in-house skillsets and expertise to efficiently monitor and manage their cloud infrastructure. Traditional IT functions of organizations now face new challenges in grasping the cloud infrastructure nuances such as configuration of cloud services, understanding the application dependencies, monitoring the usage and finding ways to minimize recurring spend, etc. Inability to track these parameters often results in poor performance, financial overspend and severe security risks. This becomes more challenging in a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

A recent Gartner report says “The landscape of cloud managed service is becoming increasingly sophisticated and competitive. By 2022, up to 60% of organizations will use an external service provider’s cloud managed service offering, which is double the percentage of organizations from 2018-2019.”

Organizations who have already adopted Cloud or embarking on their cloud journey require specialized services usually from external Managed Cloud Services Providers who have a team of cloud experts and experience in delivery variety of services on the cloud.