The Promise of Hosting Services

No doubt, hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. And this is one of the reasons why the market has become more attractive.

The domain of Web hosting services is further categorized into multiple segments including:

Managed hosting
Enterprise hosting
Email Hosting
Image Hosting
Colocation
Dedicated Hosting
Ah! there are so many of them......

Anyway lets start with the managed services first:

In today's competitive marketplace, businesspersons are looking for resources to save money while making the most of existing investments. Competition is forcing them to concentrate more on customer-facing operations and to allocate their non–core, back-end operations to vendors, which may include outsourcing network management and design. This is forcing more and more organizations to turn towards managed services as a way to conduct business.

But what does this actually mean? Let's intrude:

'Managed Services' is a broad platform denoting multiple, usually flexible, services and engagement models. It enables moving responsibility for operations or business process to an outside party. When there are limited resources, outsourcing shifts the burden of network responsibility away from the main operator to the equipment vendor.

Engagement models largely depend on the processes outsourced. For example, out-tasking is a model in which one process or functional area is managed by an external party – this is usually a specific pain point solution. A build-operate model means the service provider out-tasks implementation and transition as well as operation of a new service.

However, hosting represents a different solution in a different way. Here, the entire service is outsourced, while business process outsourcing concerns outsourcing a process and not a specific function; it is about looking for end-to-end efficiency within the process.

As opposed to the things that used to happen a decade before, the managed-services-as-engagement-models are quite organised and efficient enough. Now, most things have come up into the exposure. Industry people know what works and what does not, thereby significantly lowering the risk in choosing this model as a way to do business.

Well! I will soon be back with more.....