What is Managed Cloud Hosting?

Posted March 5, 2019

In Cloud Service Providers, Cloud Services, Cloud Solutions, Managed IT Service Providers, Managed IT Services, Managed Network Services, Managed Service Provider, Managed Services

If you run or work within a company that has large data storage requirements, you likely know of the dangers and inconveniences of keeping your storage centers in-house or on a public cloud platform. An increasingly popular option is to allow an off-site company to manage your cloud computing needs for you. This allows you to focus on running your business, without fear of unseen security vulnerabilities and loss of access to your data due to leaks or hacks.

Managed Cloud Hosting Overview

With managed cloud hosting, your resources, databases, storage hardware, software, and tools are stored off-site on a remote network across multiple servers. Additionally, your managed cloud hosting service provider will monitor your data and the servers it resides upon, in order to provide security and protection to your assets.

Managed cloud hosting allows users to take full advantage of the benefits of cloud computing without the necessary steps of hiring on cloud managers, additional IT staff, and in-house consultants. Simply put, if you are using cloud services, they have to be managed. The choice is yours as to whether you want to tackle that lofty task in-house (and lose valuable time, money, and resources training to do so), or allow experts with years of experience to take care of managing the cloud for you.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions

In a hybrid cloud network, businesses manage some resources in-house and have others provided externally. Ideally, the hybrid cloud network approach allows a business to take advantage of the scalability and cost-effectiveness that a cloud-computing environment offers while allowing for specialized applications needing a local network for application delivery to remain on-premise.

Hybrid cloud networks offer an ideal blend of the cost-savings and convenience of cloud computing with the control and security of on-premise computing.

Considerations with Managed Cloud Hosting

As your data continues to grow, storage fees can accumulate if the amount of data is not being properly managed. In order to prevent this from happening, you must first understand what type of data you have, when and if it is being accessed, and how long you wish to keep it. Once you know what data is needed from a company and legal standpoint, you can start to build out your data retention strategy.

Kyle Vinar

Kyle Vinar is Partner / President of Verus Corporation. He oversees all business operations and coaches Verus teams to continually improve on their solutions from client experience to product development and overall solution implementation. He works with all Verus resources to increase efficiencies and excellence in every aspect of their organizational roles. Kyle believes that people are the last real competitive edge that a company can have and constructing a rich culture is a vital step in running a world-class organization. Therefore he strives to create a culture within Verus that allows everyone to show up authentically and grow both personally and professionally, which in turn allows Verus Corp team members to provide clients with top-of-the-line service. Kyle helps balance strategy, capacity, and culture in such a way that has allowed Verus Corp to achieve exponential growth since he joined the company in 2013. One of Kyle’s greatest professional achievements has been in helping lay the foundation upon which Verus Corporation could be named the 2nd Best Place to Work by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Kyle holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from St. Cloud State University. He lives in Champlin with his wife and 3 children. He has enjoyed volunteering as a soccer coach for over 6 years and was the former Director of Coaching for Rebels Soccer Club. If Kyle isn’t on the sidelines of one of his children’s soccer games or in the audience of his eldest’s musicals, he can often be found cruising scenic routes on his Harley, in a deer stand, or on the golf course.