Blurring the Lines: Managed Services and Cloud Computing
Software companies and MSPs are erasing the line between managed services and cloud computing. In fact, I don’t think there ever was a line between the two specialties.
We’ve written quite a bit about the growing trend toward integrating managed services solutions (such as Vembu StoreGrid) with cloud services (such as Amazon Simple Storage Service).
But ScienceLogic blog has furthered the discussion with this blog entry — which describes how managed services, cloud computing and virtualization are coming together.
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Cloud computing is going to be the new form of outsourcing for infrastructure. Traditional Managed IT service will be dead in the future.
Talent Basket: Please, don’t kill the MSP acronym. I’ve got a vested interest in its survival. 😉
Joe –
With Cloud Computing, MSPs will switch from being Managed Service Providers to being Monthly Subscription Prescribers….
Thus MSP will remain safe, and you can sleep well.
Rich Forsen
http://virtualadministrator.com