Enterprise Managed Services: Key Issues Facing Today’s CIO

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Enterprise Managed Services

• Key Issues Facing Todays CIO

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Enterprise Managed Services

• With the deluge of challenges facing CIOs, many
  companies are trending to enterprise managed
  services.
• According to a recent article published in Fierce
  CIO, an online publication sent to over 31,000
  industry professionals, todays CIOs have their
  hands full.
• Several issues pop up regularly that cause undue
  stress for IT managers.
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• Can IT capacity keep up with innovation?
• How can IT initiatives align with business goals?
  
• Will IT be able to support all the personal
  technologies being brought into the workplace?
• How can IT secure the network given the vast
  number of solutions being deployed?

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Enterprise Managed Services

• Infrastructure problems, like crashing servers,
  failing network switches or power outages, used
  to consume IT managers.
• These problems havent gone away entirely. But,
  new problems have surfaced that burden IT
  departments.
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• These greater challenges go hand-in-hand with the
  increased roles and responsibilities of todays
  CIO.
• To help confront these hurdles, CIOs are turning
  to enterprise managed services.
• When IT operations run smoothly, the organization
  is better positioned to create value,
  differentiation and competitive advantage.

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Enterprise Managed Services
Enterprise managed services can help with many
issues, including

• Security.
• Breaches are a CIOs worst nightmare.
• Keeping up with the onslaught of advanced
  password cracking tools and sophisticated social
  engineering can consume an internal IT
  department.
• Increasing mobility adds another layer of
  security challenges.
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• Enterprise managed services can free IT
  departments from this stress-inducing
  responsibility.
• The best outsourcing providers have invested
  heavily in advanced data center facilities,
  equipment and technology.
• The providers in-house experts remain on top of
  the latest security threats.
• They have the resources to thwart any breach
  before it becomes a devastating event.

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Enterprise Managed Services
Enterprise managed services can help with many
issues, including

• Innovation.
• As a general rule, if companies dont continually
  innovate, they fail.
• Those organizations that develop ways to do more
  with less often succeed.
• Outsourcing enterprise managed services allows
  you to work with companies that live and breathe
  technology 24/7. Theyre exposed to the very
  latest technologies and can translate them into
  viable solutions.
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• Two examples of innovations being deployed today
  include cloud services and BYOD (Bring Your Own
  Device).
• Experienced enterprise managed services providers
  are ahead of the curve with these technologies.
  They know how to apply and manage these
  technologies to each customers specific business
  requirements.
• As a result, companies can leverage
  employee-owned devices to allow system access any
  place and any time.

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Enterprise Managed Services
Enterprise managed services can help with many
issues, including

• Alignment.
• Given CIOs must help deliver real business value,
  they need to constantly make sure the
  departments goals are well aligned with business
  objectives.
• IT staff often gets bogged down with the day to
  day tasks of managing equipment and technology.
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• When IT operations can be shifted to an
  enterprise managed services provider, CIOs and
  other IT staff can contribute the bulk of their
  time to fulfilling corporate initiatives.
• The focus shifts to business strategy and
  priorities.

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Enterprise Managed Services
OneNeck understands that businesses need a
superior technology environment at a fixed,
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enterprise managed services, you get a turnkey
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practices in IT managed hosting and world-class
technology.   All of this is wrapped in a high
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OneNeck, your company can leverage the latest
technology without having to worry about hardware
or any of the headaches associated with
maintaining computer systems. For you, this
means less overhead and a larger return on your
IT investment.
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About the Author
Chuck Vermillion is CEO and founder of OneNeck IT
Services, a leading provider of hosted
application management and managed services since
1997.
For more information about Enterprise Managed
Services, visit http//www.oneneck.com today.