What's Behind Move Toward Managed Services

摘要

When the going gets tough, the tough get ... managed? Apparently so. One of the major trends I've seen in recent months is the move toward managed services. More than 65% of the companies I work with say they have deployed managed services - more than double the 27% that were doing so in 2006.The most common types of managed services? Managed routerrnservices (deployed by 49%),followed by managed VoIP (22%).rnA couple of factors are driving the trend.rnFirst is that carriers and other service providers have been aggressively pricing managed services - to the point where some of my clients were able to obtain fully managed services (along with brand-new routers) for less than they expected to pay for unmanaged services.