Using your MSP to manage your public clouds… step by step
June 9, 2014
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Editorial Staff.
Those who leverage managed server providers (MSPs) often use the MSP to access and manage public cloud services. However, there are right and wrong ways to do this. Many believe that MSPs and public clouds live in very different worlds. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the past, ‘managed service providers’ was a term used to describe infrastructure services delivered on a subscription basis. With the advent of cloud computing, managed IT services and management services have become synonymous. Indeed, most MSPs are very cloud-like. Many even provide auto- and self-provisioning capabilities, as well as some elastic scaling features.
However, as MSPs continue to grow in popularity, along with cloud computing, best practices are beginning to emerge around how to use MSPs as management layers for cloud-based resources. Simply put, it’s the ability to leverage a tiered model to deal with public clouds using the MSP as a point of abstraction…
While this may sound complicated, it’s really not. MSPs offer sets of services that may be leveraged by enterprise IT as if the services existed in-house. This is typically a more cost effective approach than building and managing these services on your own. Some MSP usage already exists within most modern enterprises…
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