Most business owners have already come to understand the advantages that come with migrating workloads to the cloud. By tapping into what the cloud has to offer, organizations can reduce their physical IT infrastructure and their associated cost. But if you’re still trying to self-manage your critical business applications and IT processes through the cloud, and not working with a cloud managed services partner, it can limit the agility and speed you sought to begin with.
Quickness and flexibility are essential. You need those attributes to rapidly meet the challenges of today and the changes to come. Without cloud managed services to streamline and simplify how the cloud works for you, you might experience operational inefficiencies and stalled growth as you deal with managing technology that helps your business — but isn’t core to what it does.
Managing your IT infrastructure can be costly, both in hard dollars and in human resources. By simplifying and streamlining your processes and freeing up resources, you can focus on strategic business initiatives, optimize costs, and leave the day-to-day management to a vetted partner.
Today we’re examining cloud management services further, uncovering how they empower your business to do what it does best and take IT headaches off your plate.
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What are Cloud Managed Services?
Cloud managed services offer partial or complete management of your cloud resources or infrastructure. These responsibilities can include engineering a migration, configuring your environment, providing optimization of current infrastructure, implementing security measures, or ongoing maintenance. These services can help govern public, private, or hybrid clouds and are often acquired before a migration to assist in determining which cloud resources best match their needs and to ensure the initial configuration is aligned perfectly.
Cloud managed service providers typically offer subscriptions for a wide range of services and act as a replacement, or supplement, to your own in-house cloud IT team. Such providers help businesses maximize benefits from cloud implementation while minimizing internal time and costs related to the effort.
What Do You Get with Cloud Managed Services?
Working with a cloud managed services provider gives organizations access to experts in the field, avenues to acquiring new technology advancements, and minimizes the cost of realizing complete cloud management.
Resource Optimization — The right provider works with you to figure out which pricing models fit your organization and how to align available services to fit your workloads and drive improved performance. Often, you’ll gain access to reports and performance metrics for your existing resources and advice on how to improve configurations.
Integration — Support here is critical if you’re trying to create a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. An experienced cloud managed services provider can help you deploy the more complex configurations needed for hybrid cloud support (which includes on-prem capabilities) and multi-cloud (cloud services from multiple providers) environments. Managed service providers help guarantee that employees, applications, and all users are seamlessly connected and can access all the required resources without issue.
Predictable Cost — Many service providers offer a tiered, subscription system, giving businesses the flexibility to pay for what they need while still ensuring simple, easy-to-budget pricing plans so they know what to expect each month.
Capitalize on the Benefits of Cloud Managed Services
Managing your cloud environment internally requires substantial investments in time and money, but doesn’t necessarily ensure the best results. Just as outsourcing IT management pays off with increased functionality and support, relying on a cloud managed services provider similarly opens up benefits that can positively impact your business in many ways.
Robust Infrastructure Support
Your cloud management partner should be able to monitor, report, scan, integrate, and align network operations with your business objectives. This capability to fine-tune your network infrastructure is backed by 24/7 management; your cloud will be tailored to your specific needs and optimized with your priorities in mind.
Centralized Applications
Many cloud service providers operate from a centralized data center, meaning all services and application management is derived from a single source. This allows for increased scope for remote data access, effectively uses available resources, offers offsite storage and backup, and more, effectively leading to increased productivity.
Data Safety
Because of the centralized management and backup capabilities, your data is safeguarded. Backup procedures are taken off your hands and recovery processes can be quickly instituted across all your applications and cloud services. Together, this enhances the business continuity of your organization.
Maintenance and Updates
Ongoing support is a huge differentiator for cloud managed service providers. With your partner handling network maintenance, you alleviate the burden on your internal team to handle those tedious, but necessary, tasks. Likewise, depending on an in-house IT team for regular technology and software upgrades often consumes time, training, and additional resources. Managed cloud services mean your data centers, applications, and more are kept up to date with every possible technology update by experts who won’t skim over any details.
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Cloud Managed Services from the Experts at Arnet Technologies
Arnet Technologies has more than a decade of experience delivering premier managed IT services, covering the entire scope of IT, to businesses across Ohio. With Arnet Technologies, you’ll gain access to VMware Horizon, a best-in-class solution, without the upfront expense of purchasing the software and have our experience and expertise to make sure it’s implemented and managed correctly.
We’ll help you create specific and tailored solutions with our wide range of cloud managed services. All of our managed IT support includes critical value-adding factors such as US-based support technicians, unlimited remote helpdesk and onsite support, a 90-day performance guarantee for all SLAs, automated OS updates & maintenance, security patching, remote monitoring and access, and more.
Our cloud services and VMware expertise also include:
- Virtualized VMware Horizon Desktop For All Users & Software Applications
- Virtual Data Storage at a Private Data Center
- Domain Controller, File & Printer Servers
- Virtual Server Hardware & Licensing
- Veeam Server Backup with Dual Data Center Copies
- Router Hardware & Virtual Firewall
- Cloud-Based Wi-Fi Controller
- 24 Port POE Switch For IoT, Phone, & Endpoint Devices
- Secure Wi-Fi Access Point(s)
With cloud managed services, businesses can more easily tap into the benefits of operating from the cloud — without the worry or hassle that comes with fully managing all the details. Connect with our team today to learn how Arnet Technologies helps turn your technology into an asset.
