Managed Cloud Services : Five Points You Must Know

Managed Cloud Services are one of the major growth areas of the industries related to Internet. There are some must know points about Managed Cloud Services. Managed Cloud Services are a special type of managed services. The client, be it a company or just a web master can get on demand required resource without the need of dedicated systems. Technically and practically, Managed Cloud Services do have very high efficiency. Here are five important points those any client or would be client should keep in mind to get the profit from Managed Cloud Services as managed level means extra premium.

Levels of Managed Cloud Services

As the terminology Managed Cloud Services is quite broad, includes a simple Managed Server to complex Mission Critical Private Cloud, the level of support of Managed Cloud Services is neither expected to be uniform (by cost or by resources) nor the support teams are essentially the same.

We are mentioning these Five Important Points covering all aspects so that the article will be effective for a client of a managed cloud server (like a webmaster) as well as the Corporates.

Five Important Points of Managed Cloud Services

Check All the Options of the Managed Cloud Services of Same Niche

The most important point I believe, is to check anything before becoming a customer from various providers. What I do rightly, I randomly check the live support from various computers at random times. This is a very effective trick.

This is just an example of checking the options of Managed Cloud Services. You can irritate hundred times before being a customer, but once you are a customer, if they make you mad, unfortunately you have limited options. If some brand gives some feature of their Managed Cloud Services at abnormally lower price, suspicion should awaken inside you.

Managed Cloud Services and Service Level Agreement

We wrote about Cloud Computing SLA before, kindly refer to that old article. Link will open in new window.

Understand the quality of support team of Managed Cloud Services

The support team of any Managed Cloud Services must have good grasp on Linux. It is important that the knowledge of so called Linux Administrator of Managed Cloud Services providers is subjected to be re-examined before shifting.

Cumulative Cost of Managed Cloud Services 

Cost is a big factor but it must not go to the point to compromise the quality.

Legal Issues of Managed Cloud Services

There are some peculiar small things, that might not be covered by the Managed Cloud Services for your need. You might need to run a Fashion website as a secondary way to make money, but they have the rule not to upload even a softcore. Also it is important to know, whether you will be intimated first by the Managed Cloud Services, as a customer for any legal problem before they actually take the step like deleting a file.