As the world tightens its collective belt in response to the credit crunch, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are increasingly moving their IT hosting off-site to professional data centre facilities. Motivated by benefits that include reduced business risk and lower costs, those who have sought greater security and performance from a trusted third party aren’t generally broadcasting this migration to their competitors.
Typically managed hosting is being used by organisations whose success is dependant in its web strategy. Increasingly, the following are being managed by professional hosting providers, allowing IT departments to become more strategic rather than tactical.
Managed hosting differs from dedicated hosting in that as well as providing the same professional infrastructure as dedicated hosting, the addition of administration and management of the infrastructure as an integrated service provides a more hand-off experience for the customer.
With managed hosting, organisations are able to completely outsource the daily management of the underlying infrastructure to the hosting provider and shift their focus to developing other more strategic IT objectives.
If you are evaluating your organisation’s hosting needs, deciding whether to move your hosting off-site, or if you’re concerned your existing managed hosting provider isn’t meeting your requirements, this white paper is for you. The paper contains Must-Knows for SMBs.