Managed Hosting: An Overview

To keep the business agile and competitive, leveraging best-of-breed systems, people, and processes at low cost is the cornerstone of success, especially today when every dollar counts. Managed hosting services are closely linked with lowering costs and reducing complexity. Businesses find it difficult to build and maintain the in-house IT infrastructure which demands huge capital, specialized skills, and expensive resources, and this makes Managed hosting a great option to ensure your IT keeps pace with changing needs without budget overruns.

Managed hosting services let you transfer your day-to-day IT operations to a managed service provider for enhanced efficiency and efficient usage of limited in-house resources. You have the flexibility to choose the hosting plans and features based on your business needs, and these services are provided by a dedicated team working round the clock to keeps your systems running. The access to vast pool of specialized IT staff helps you extend your IT capabilities and fill gaps with skilled resources. This provides peace of mind and helps you enhance the business value of IT investment.

With managed hosting services, you get access to the latest technologies, methodologies, and tools, which are not available internally - ensuring the best in class IT environment and highest level of service support. Moreover, you can get additional visibility into your mission-critical IT systems to know their performance levels and take the corrective measures accordingly. And, many managed hosting providers like NaviSite deploy emerging technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing, making it much easier for you to scale your infrastructure quickly to match changing computing requirements.

The managed hosting service providers allow you to leverage economies of scale while retaining the control of your heterogeneous IT infrastructure.  Turning to a managed hosting provider for running and maintaining IT systems can increase your ROI significantly. With managed hosting, you get access to deep infrastructure expertise and transform the huge capital expenditure and operating costs associated with running infrastructure into a predictable and nominal monthly fee. In addition, many managed hosting providers offer 99.9% service level guarantees for system availability, performance, and issue resolve/response times, enabling higher uptime for the IT infrastructure and mitigating risks, which in turn means increased opportunities for creating business value.  

In today’s challenging times, more and more companies are embracing managed hosting to run their business operations smoothly. NaviSite offers a rich portfolio of managed hosting services that can be delivered in one of their enterprise-class data centers or remotely at your facilities.   

NaviSite has been a leading managed hosting provider, offering a full range of managed hosting services across a variety of mediums and technologies, including Web Hosting, Virtualization, Server Management, Storage Management, Database Management, Network and Security Management, Data Protection and Disaster Recovery, and Remote Monitoring and Management.