{"id":10908,"date":"2014-06-09T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jun\/09\/using-your-msp-to-manage-your-public-cloudsstep-by-step\/"},"modified":"2014-06-09T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:43:32","slug":"using-your-msp-to-manage-your-public-cloudsstep-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/using-your-msp-to-manage-your-public-cloudsstep-by-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Using your MSP to manage your public clouds\u2026step by step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who leverage managed server providers (MSPs) often use the MSP to access and manage public cloud services.&nbsp; However, there are right and wrong ways to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Many believe that MSPs and public clouds live in very different worlds.&nbsp; Nothing could be further from the truth.&nbsp; In the past, &lsquo;managed service providers&rsquo; was a term used to describe infrastructure services delivered on a subscription basis.&nbsp; With the advent of cloud computing, managed IT services and management services have become synonymous.&nbsp; Indeed, most MSPs are very cloud-like.&nbsp; Many even provide auto- and self-provisioning capabilities, as well as some elastic scaling features.<\/p>\n<p>However, as MSPs continue to grow in popularity, along with cloud computing, best practices are beginning to emerge around how to use MSPs as management layers for cloud-based resources.&nbsp; Simply put, it&rsquo;s the ability to leverage a tiered model to deal with public clouds using the MSP as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who leverage managed server providers (MSPs) often use the MSP to access and manage public cloud services.&nbsp; However, there are right and wrong ways to do this.<br \/>\nMany believe that MSPs and public clouds live in very different worlds.&nbsp; Not&#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-10908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908","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=10908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}