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Cloud-managed networks and their Future

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Radhika Singh
Cloud-managed networks and their Future

Cloud computing has enabled businesses to operate more efficiently. Businesses worldwide are modernizing their entire IT infrastructures and processes, applications, and assets on virtual platforms: Gartner predicts that over 80 percent of global data will be moved to the cloud.


Since cloud applications have become so popular recently now that companies are implementing “work-from-home” policies, cloud-managed networking is also becoming quite interesting, as a way of managing a company’s network infrastructure.


The Cloud Managed Services market will be worth $116.2 Billion by 2025 (report by MarketsandMarkets). These numbers tell you one thing. Cloud technology is rapidly gaining popularity amongst businesses and clients, and it will be no longer that every company must think of moving all their business to the cloud.


But how can cloud-managed networking be beneficial for your company and what we can expect from in the future? We’ll briefly explain this in this article.

 

What is a cloud computing network?

Rather than managing your company’s network physically, with any network equipment, software or any other physical resources, cloud-managed networking is usually offered as a service, which helps you manage it remotely through resources that are already in the cloud. This means you will be able to maintain and manage multiple sites, devices or users from one place and this way allows your employees to create their workspace anywhere they are.

The pandemic was for sure a driving force for companies who were yet having second thoughts for remote working. But this working model has become important for the future as well.

A cloud managed network is offered as a service, therefore it uses SaaS to enable visibility and analysis with the opportunity to troubleshoot and raise security amongst the network. This makes the job of any IT team much easier.

Once connected to the network, a device can easily obtain its running configuration from the cloud. In addition, a single platform enables businesses to scale from a small number of devices to a large number of devices under a single platform.

 

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Managed Networks

One of the most challenging things that companies deal with is whenever new network equipment must be implemented. Since set-up and configuration usually takes time, this raises costs too.

With cloud networking deployment is easier. All of the devices are already configured prior to installation, which makes the set up much more flexible. Any device that is connected to a network, has the configuration immediately downloaded which makes it available to run right away.

In a cloud managed network managing issues and errors is much easier than usually dealing with limited resources or network performance like it happens in everyday business.

As most cloud-managed networking solutions are offered as a service instead of businesses having to pay a large upfront cost, maintenance and support are usually included as part of the service, and can provide significant cost savings over the long run as compared to traditional networking.

Security and access are concerns when using cloud tools, as a key benefit is that users can access them from anywhere. If a business wants to use a cloud-managed network provider, it must make sure that it supports different levels of IT admin access and multi-factor authentication to ensure that only authorized users can access the network.

There are also potential connectivity issues with an externally managed system. In the event of an outage, it can be much harder to resolve it quickly and without disruption to your business’ core functions.

 

What are Cloud-Managed Services?

Managing Cloud Services means having all your cloud and IT management services managed by someone else. So, through outsourcing, you get tech support to help your business operation run smoothly.

In most of the cases, having an IT department inside your company, can’t provide the necessary solutions. Especially if your business has nothing to do with IT. This is why most companies outsource cloud managed services to a third party so they can help manage security, storage, operations and more.

Hiring such companies can be crucial to your business success. And in most cases will cost you less than having an inside tech department.

Here, let’s mention some benefits of working with a Cloud Managed Service Provider:


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