Cloud computing, in both public and private mode, has become the new enterprise standard. At the same time, enterprises are continuing to work with managed service providers (MSPs) for a widening range of IT solutions, including cloud support.
These two trends are linked. CIO Senior Writer Thor Olavsrud last summer noted that “leaning on an MSP for a subset of your IT services can be a boon.” He also pointed to a CompTIA study indicating that the percentage of MSPs who say that cloud services play no role in their offerings was “almost immeasurably low.” A good case for combining the two is the hybrid cloud. Microsoft Azure Stack, the private cloud environment for Azure initially released in July 2017, is such a case.
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Source: IT Strategy