Everyone would have heard a lot about the cloud and its hype already. So lets take a sneak peek into its adoption in businesses, especially among the channel partners #MSPs #VARs
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Cloud adoption is accelerating at an impressive rate, especially among the developers, business units and CFOs because of its varied advantages. Developers are likely to adopt cloud because of its flexibility which is being showcased by their peers by delivering a lot of new ideas and doing a lot of cool stuffs. Business units claim that cloud can be used readily out of the box which requires no maintenance, particularly the SaaS applications. The finance side of business saves a lot with cloud as they can avoid unnecessary capital expenditure, headcount and budget. The IT on the other hand who used to get nightmares about the security in the cloud have already started showing interest towards its adoption.
“The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5 percent in 2013 to total 1 billion worldwide, up from 1 billion in 2012” – Gartner
So what is happening in the world of channel market/partners? As a MSP, if you are thinking that the cloud is a
As a channel partner, you will have to adopt an integrated approach to deliver both the managed services and cloud services, that is, a best of both worlds “solutions” approach to IT. Indeed, it is the same reason why we offer both on-premise and cloud-based option to our partners to help them succeed with their strategies when it comes to offering a file sharing and collaboration solution.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you plan to adopt cloud and make it part of your service portfolio? Let us know in the comments below as we have backup and file sharing solutions tailored for you.
