Outsourcing has been growing in popularity. It represents an opportunity for companies to expand, as needed, while cutting the costs associated with new technologies and services. Recent studies conducted by Computer Economics, Inc. showed outsourcing made up only 4 percent of IT costs in 2008. By 2009 this percentage increased to more than 6 percent. By 2011, outsourcing IT services made up more than 10 percent of the total IT expenditures, and this trend has only continued in 2012.
This means that choosing the right outsourced IT provider is now more important than ever. There is a lot at stake in terms of business continuity, company productivity, growth of revenue, and company expansion.
Part of choosing an outsourced IT provider is knowing what mistakes to avoid. Investing the time at the beginning means fewer headaches over the long term and minimizing the potential for unexpected costs as a result of making the wrong decision.
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What if you were able to allow your team of IT professionals to focus on core business initiatives instead of maintaining your IT infrastructure while you have access to entire team of IT experts 24/7? This can be made possible with a hosted cloud service.
Hosted cloud services offer many advantages to businesses of all sizes, regardless if you are a small retail business or a large corporation with a complex IT infrastructure. When you work with the right hosted cloud services provider, this can help to alleviate many IT-related headaches while helping your business to reduce costs.
By divesting IT tasks such as server hosting and maintenance, firewall management, mail hosting and application management, and other critical tasks, you can empower your IT team by allowing them to focus on core strategies which help your business to move forward. A hosted cloud services provider acts as an extended IT department which provides additional support and 24/7 management of the hosted infrastructure. This is accomplished while your IT team focuses on mission-critical objectives.