The growth of Self Service platforms in Hybrid Cloud Hosting

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• The Growth of Self Service
• Platforms in Hybrid Cloud Hosting

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The Growth of Self Service Platforms in Hybrid
Cloud Hosting
Hybrid Cloud Hosting market is growing rapidly.
IT managers are dealing with the management
efficiency issues of hybrid cloud infrastructure.
It combines the traditional infrastructure with
the modern technologies. It is a balanced blend
of public cloud infrastructure with private
cloud, as a result, the hybrid cloud
infrastructure becomes quite complex to
manage. The explosive growth of hybrid cloud
computing will bring more complexities. However,
the good news is that cloud users are showing an
inclination towards self-service platforms. This
platform in the hybrid cloud has its own
advantages and is the future of hybrid cloud
hosting. But isnt it too technical? Yes,
managing complex hybrid IT infrastructure all by
self is a big challenge. But surprisingly,
according to a research by Forrester, a higher
percentage of customers have preferred to manage
it all by themselves. Also, the customers today
are getting more familiar with the technologies
and developing a better understanding with the
time. Perhaps this is one of the reasons there is
a continuous rise in the demand for self-service
platforms for hybrid hosting servers.
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Seeing such transition, hybrid cloud providers
need to upgrade their offering with tools and
other solutions to empower the customers to
self-manage the infrastructure. Advantages of
Self-Service management of Hybrid
Cloud Operational efficiency The businesses
will be able to gain excellent operational
efficiencies through the self-service approach of
Hybrid cloud hosting. Businesses will be able to
focus on customizing the solutions specific to
the business requirements. Cost advantages for
Startup It reduces the cost for both the company
as well as the cloud hosting vendors. Startups
are especially benefitted from the
user-friendliness, flexibility and scalability
feature offered by the self-service model of
hybrid cloud servers. It also helps save
time. Better Agility user behavior patterns
have changed. They expect best-in-class services
and at the same time, they have the zeal to learn
things. They are smarter, wiser thus better
decision makers. So the cloud Server providers
are adapting their methods to this changing
trend. Cloud Server Hosting with self-service
tools allows the users to have better control
over the infrastructure and the overall
operations. It allows self-management of the
hybrid IT through advanced tools and solutions.
Now their focus is to deliver better performance
and ensure growth for their clients.
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Cloud providers can focus on other growth
factors As the customers are now opting for
self-management of the IT infrastructure, the
Cloud Server hosting providers are switching
their focus to different areas of IT management.
They are now focusing on building a more
responsive, high-performance and highly secure
cloud hosting environment for their
users. Self-service hybrid cloud is the future
of cloud computing services but it never means
that Managed hosting services will vanish away.
Rather the managed cloud services will grow to
the next level to deliver greater value to the
customers through better customization services.