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Digital agencies, financial firms, small and medium enterprises, all are migrating more applications and workloads to the cloud every day. In fact, the cloud is having such a meteoric impact that Gartner estimates as much as $216 billion will be spent on the cloud shift by 2020.

It isnt hard to see the advantages to this approach employees enjoy easier access to critical systems and data while business leaders benefit from lower, more predictable IT costs.

But whats in it for the internal IT team?

Ensuring the right choiceAs more and more cloud solutions become available, the number of choices can quickly become overwhelming, even for the most well-versed IT decision-maker.

This is where a partnership with a managed cloud hosting provider becomes so valuable. Executives can lean on this relationship to ensure they are making the right decisions with their IT investments which should drive ROI and eliminate missteps. Starting the cloud journey off on the right foot is important and leveraging a managed hosting partner can ensure every cloud need is addressed.

Shifting workloads means shifting responsibilitiesTodays IT professionals are the bedrock of most organizations, ensuring that all critical systems provide optimal functionality. Whats more, these responsibilities only expand as the number of devices connected to the network grows.

How do they ensure that everything hums along as it should? A managed cloud solution provides an answer to this struggle. As more and more important workloads migrate to the cloud, this responsibility shifts from the internal IT team to the managed cloud hosting provider. In short: while the company still owns everything migrated to the cloud, the managed service provider now takes care of maintenance and upkeep.

Providers of managed service will make sure your system is configured properly for your load, keep an eye on security issues, patch your software as needed and manage backups among other tasks, CNET contributor David Gewirtz wrote.

This liberates the internal IT team to conquer other pressing technological initiatives, such experimenting with new software or investigating a new IT strategy. The possibilities are endless.

The power of the cloud without the complexityThe cloud is a powerful asset for businesses, no matter their size or industry. This investment becomes even more impactful when coupled with a partnership with a managed services provider.

Taking advantage of the expertise of a managed service partner helps ensure that the right technology is in place and that this environment is skillfully maintained for now and the future.

Finally, IT teams can rejoice.

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Global Cloud compute services market is expected to grow from $23.3 billion in 2016 to reach $68.4 billion in 2020 and 90 percent of organisations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management capabilities, market research firm Gartner predicted on Wednesday. Traditional data centre outsourcing (DCO) spending is expected to decline from $55.1 billion in 2016 to $45.2 billion in 2020.

As the demand for agility and flexibility grows, organisations will shift toward more industrialised, less-tailored options, said D.D. Mishra, Research Director at Gartner, in a statement. Spending on co-location and hosting is also expected to increase from $53.9 billion in 2016 to $74.5 billion in 2020.

In addition, infrastructure utility services (IUS) will grow from $21.3 billion in 2016 to $37 billion in 2020 and storage as a service will increase from $1.7 billion in 2016 to $2.7 billion in 2020, the findings showed. In 2016, DCO and IUS together represented 49 percent of the $154 billion total data centre services market worldwide, consisting of DCO/IUS, hosting and Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

This is expected to tilt further toward Cloud IaaS and hosting, and by 2020, DCO/IUS will be approximately 35 percent of the expected $228 billion worldwide data centre services market. By 2019, 90 percent of native Cloud IaaS providers will be forced out of this market by the Amazon Web Services (AWS)-Microsoft duopoly, Gartner said.

Publish date: April 5, 2017 5:46 pm| Modified date: April 5, 2017 5:46 pm

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The past decade has brought much change to the IT infrastructure industry as enterprise IT companies scale up their data consumption to unprecedented levels. Todays enterprise IT giants require far more speed, power and bandwidth to successfully run their businesses and this is only possible via enhancements to the underlying infrastructure.

Infrastructure develops so quickly that industry practices in 2020 will likely be unrecognisable from what they were 10 years ago. Infrastructure has become more powerful, faster and more secure - and we have still only just scratched the surface of whats possible.

This article will examine some of the current trends within the industry as it stands, as well a look at what the future holds for IaaS in 2017.

The thinking behind cloud technology can be traced back to the sixties but it has been somewhat of a late bloomer. Technology giants are now investing more in cloud technology and this has had a strong impact on Internet infrastructure providers and consumers. At the same time, the rate of adoption of cloud technology is growing among smaller-sized businesses and also in the consumer market, as the cloud continues to permeate our daily lives.

Thanks to the advancements in infrastructure, there are now multi-cloud solutions. That means, using cloud hosting technology across multiple data centres to harness their collective power. A multi-cloud solution can offer increased resilience in the network and can mitigate latency issues for IaaS providers. The best multi-cloud solutions are those with integrated management and security hosting environments, as they allow for a seamless transfer of information.

Nowadays, IaaS providers are using the cloud to implement big data solutions. Big data computations and storage can now all take place within the cloud environment which means data is more widely available and can be accessed instantly. However, as big data solutions become commonplace, the mainstream infrastructure must also scale up accordingly to meet the needs of modern businesses.

As big data continues to grow there is an increased need for storage (now known as smart storage). Autonomic storage is the next generation of hybrid storage solutions and is an example of real innovation in the IaaS industry. It places data on the appropriate storage tier, enabling tier-to-tier data migration meaning that storage is no longer passive but instead improves both the performance and flexibility of the network.

In addition to smart storage, advances in technology have also made data more secure. With so many high-profile cyber security attacks and breaches in 2016, the security of data within the Internet infrastructure has become paramount for all IaaS providers and businesses alike. IaaS providers implement managed security systems as part of their offering, adding an increased layer of security to the network whilst specialist infrastructure providers are best placed to implement security on the network. In fact, many companies are currently reaping the rewards of outsourcing their data security to high-quality cyber security specialists.

As 2017 goes on, it is clear that the cloud will be undergoing significant developments. Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions will also require vigilant management as workloads increase, whilst cloud infrastructure providers will have to ensure that they are capable of managing modern cloud solutions and ensure as much of the process as possible is automated to eliminate the risk of human error.

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