Server Management Problems May Be Solved with Managed Hosted Services
Information Technology professionals may find it strenuous or even time consuming to manage several heterogeneous servers. New challenges emerge when there are a growing number of virtual servers and IT departments are looking for ways to resolve this matter or else there’ll be a lot to deal with in the near future.
Hosting and cloud computing company Rackspace conducted a survey recently and the results revealed that IT professionals are now facing growing challenges in terms of managing the environment now that there’s growing demand for servers. These developments usually lead to the need to avail of having managed hosted services as a viable alternative.
Rackspace reportedly hired Loud House two months ago to make the survey among IT managers at midsize companies based in United Kingdom and the United States in a bid to determine the habits in server management.
The survey showed that about a third of the IT staff time is used solely with server management task. This is considered a hassle among almost sixty percent of the IT managers surveyed. This led participants to suggest there’s a need to come up with time-effective management of these ever growing numbers of servers.
Rackspace President and CEO Lanham Napier said that a large part of IT manager’s time is utilized just to maintain stability of the servers. A certain percentage of those surveyed specified that in this day and age, there’s a need to have a 24×7 server support since most of their operations have global reach and that servers need to run all the time.
