Role of Cloud Provider in Public Cloud Strategy

In the past, the concept of putting mission-critical data and applications in public cloud was something business leaders scoffed at. Nowadays, hyper-scale computing resources from Microsoft and Amazon are becoming popular.

At first, there’s some skepticism as to what the increasing popularity of public cloud could mean for the business model of IT service provider. Besides, one of the roles they have played in previous years is managing the infrastructure for the clients that do not have the skills, resources, and time to manage this in-house. However, just as the deployment of cloud has evolved, with the new service offerings as well as new ways to help clients take advantage of all cloud has to offer, regardless of what cloud they choose.

Below are some of the examples of the kinds of services being offered by a cloud provider for clients who want to deploy data and applications in the cloud:

• Integration Between Clouds

Most of the clients operate in hybrid IT environment, which deploys some assets in public cloud and several assets in the hosted private cloud or in the colocation environment in the TierPoint data center. Cloud service providers help their clients integrate applications and data while maintaining the security level, availability and performance of the resources needed for mission critical apps no matter where the infrastructure resides.

• Cloud Migration Strategies

Projects on IT transformation are frequently described as working on airplane’s engine while in flight. Meeting performance objectives and managing risk simultaneously needs airtight strategy. The professional service team members can be asked to work with the migration strategy and planning team of the client, particularly for the organizations that manage high risk data sets or little experience with cloud. Although you plan managing your cloud-based deployments, you can start off on the right foot with the migration strategy, which reduces your risk and disruptions to businesses.

• Cost Management and Performance

If you are like other clients, the ability to lower and restructure the costs in several areas is one of the things that’s attractive you to the cloud. Nevertheless, you should still prioritize performance. Cloud providers can help their clients make correct initial choices given their performance needs and monitor their performance as their computing requirements and available technology change.

• Security

Azure and AWS provide state-of-the-art features for security, yet even those industry-leading vendors are fast to point out that their clients should do their part. For example, Amazon refers to shared security model where they’re responsible for the security of cloud and their customers are responsible for security in cloud. Cloud providers can help you determine what it means and ensure that your bases are covered no matter where your applications and data reside.

• System Management

A lot of vendors release scheduled updates every month and patches whenever vulnerability is discovered. Applying such updates automatically could cause challenges for several organizations, yet more often than not, the patch management is seen as something that could be put off. It’s risky and such vulnerabilities are discovered when somebody tries taking advantage of them. Cloud providers work with the clients to manage the system updates in a way that’s least disruptive to businesses.

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