These services are the necessary precursor to those other services, which sit at a higher layer up. Enterprise APM as a basis for distributed computing services. We ve covered this one in past months, so we won t revisit it here. Outsourcing management, MSPs and the new services model. New services are springing up, benefiting hosting and network services providers that need a way to spruce up their offerings.
Partnerships are inevitable between the infrastructure and management services providers.
Carrier-grade service platforms are being offered commercially to support management services. They integrate management services with infrastructure, and include such components as provisioning and billing. This will help turn resource and applications management into an operationally viable business. Hosted integration is a growing service type. Rather than internally integrate their own applications by developing, then maintaining, their own interfaces using enterprise application integration toolsets, a new option for enterprises is to subscribe to a value-added service for outsourcing the integration functions.