Trends Reshaping the World of Managed Solutions

As the demand for information grows and with various ways it can be accessed, leveraged, and harnessed, more and more companies experience greater pressure on their IT infrastructure. Mobile, cloud, social, and wearable technologies change the IT landscape at unprecedented rate. While ushering new value propositions as well as ways for companies to interact with the customers, such transformational technologies demand that every business integrates new systems and has the smart hands on board to maintain and support them. The convergence of some milestones that changed the way forever the way people work and live has given birth to new IT landscape. The IT departments and their managed solutions partners should be equipped to respond strategically.

Security

Social, mobile, and cloud technologies are forcing information technology industry to have suspenders approach and robust belt to security as transformational change becomes the second nature. As such new technologies meet new demands for more information access, companies along with their services providers will have to deploy new ways to keep the information systems safeguarded from the external threats. The need for the security will extend in numerous directions to include phishing protection and antivirus, web applications, mobile devices, manpower security clearance, networks, and cloud infrastructure protection.

Team members of the 3^rd party organizations who come in contact with the organizational data must have proper industry clearance where needed and knowledge of regulations and compliance standards. Protective systems, measures, protocols, and policies should be put into place to avoid unauthorized access at different entry points. Managed solutions partners should serve their clients as the trusted allies through security management layers.

Mainstream Proliferation of the Cut-Rate Cloud Servers

The white box servers that are manufactured by ODMs in Taiwan and China are making their way onto the cloud and into corporate data centers, replacing off-the-shelf systems due to stripped-down, no-frills, and custom configuration nature. Free of the whistles and the bells of the fully customizable hardware available through OEM, white boxes are purchased and specified at low price points compared to their branded counterparts.

Cloud Computing

Small and big businesses turn to the cloud to access and store their data and applications. Cloud computing provides companies the ability to establish a virtual office environment that enabled employees to connect to the files and applications anytime and anywhere. This provides members around the clock access to the organization systems and information. It also allows the companies to minimize IT footprint as such systems may be housed off-premises. The impact is that organizations derive more productivity from the workforce while lessening overhead.

Instead of having to buy expensive systems and equipment they can utilize the provided resources from their cloud service provider and the smart hands of their partners to keep all hardware infrastructure. For its cost savings, utility, and flexibility, more companies move all or part of the systems to the cloud. Migration demands that the managed service provider should have cloud strategy in place and in a good way to serve both their ODM partners and clients.

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