How Managed Services are the Key to IT Infrastructure

Sunesh Govindaraj
terralogicinc
Published in
2 min readSep 20, 2018

Companies now offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This has led to decreased prices at the infrastructure level. Customers that are already on the cloud and looking for more budget structures can have a couple of options. One option is to move to a better and more economical infrastructure play, applications from one supplier to another might be a proposal. This is the area where cloud handled services comes in.

Cloud managed services encompasses the maintenance and management performed on cloud infrastructure to make it functionally ready for a business user. It empowers businesses to ensure that architecture, provisioning on cloud, migration to cloud, application and data deployment, and day-to-day management are done by the cloud provider.

Here are 3 common types of services:

1. Managed via the application layer. Here, the seller manages the application just like e-commerce, Internet-based overseeing, reporting, and social networking applications through to the application layer. These plans generally offer service level agreements at the application layer. It includes everything in the choices below.

2. Managed by the data layer. Vendor manages the information layer, databases, their service, and backups are part of the services.

3. Managed throughout the OS layer. Here, the seller manages only through into the OS layer. This contains the OS installation, service, virus protection, provisioning and so on.

Such services include shutdown, startup, patching, cloning of the application, databases, and OS already have been. An automated tool together with the seeded performance of applications and the database might do that job. However items like user issues and troubleshooting, performance issues need diligence and require the care of experts. There’s so much which goes on in the background to make the system operate, this is how the benefit of managed services lies. Lastly, Infrastructure is not any good till the application on it functions properly, and consumers can utilize it to effectively operate business transactions.

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Sunesh Govindaraj
terralogicinc

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