{"id":10634,"date":"2014-04-29T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/apr\/29\/from-msps-to-the-cloud-understanding-the-links\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:55:35","slug":"from-msps-to-the-cloud-understanding-the-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/from-msps-to-the-cloud-understanding-the-links\/","title":{"rendered":"From MSPs to the cloud: Understanding the links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study that took place last year predicted the managed services provider (MSP) market to nearly double over the next five years.&nbsp; The study, by research and consulting firm MarketsandMarkets, forecast a jump in the market from $142.75 billion in 2013 to $256.05 billion in 2018. The study includes managed data centers, networks, mobility, infrastructure, communications, security and other areas in the managed services market.<\/p>\n<p>This study seems to fly in the face of many who predict negative effects on MSPs from the growth of cloud computing.&nbsp; However, there are signs of an emerging symbiotic relationship where both MSPs and cloud-based services are growing in lockstep.<\/p>\n<p>The core problem that MSPs solve is the ability to outsource some or all of an enterprise&rsquo;s IT operations to service providers that allow more direct control over the infrastructure and application services.&nbsp; While all MSPs differ in how they provide &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study that took place last year predicted the managed services provider (MSP) market to nearly double over the next five years.&nbsp; The study, by research and consulting firm MarketsandMarkets, forecast a jump in the market from $142.75 billion in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}