Almost universally there are two components missing in the cloud that enterprises need to be mindful of. First, the service levels that are provided in the cloud need to be examined. Some of the providers are not making any guarantees about the performance or availability of their environments. As such, they are most suitable for development and testing activities that don’t affect everyday business operations of your company.

Second, most XaaS providers don’t provide any management of the resources that are provisioned to you. For instance, if you provision a virtual machine, you will still need to provide OS management and configurations (patching), monitoring and incident remediation, and capacity management for the internal resources (i.e. disk space). So there is a tradeoff where you have release from the capital costs of running it inside your four walls, but there is additional complexity to manage the environment that may not be within the reach of your current management tools.

With Worknet’s managed cloud model, you retain all of the benefits of the pooled resources provided by the public cloud, including quick scalability and hardware optimization, while at the same time you gain the reliability, performance, and customization needed for your particular business, as well as a skilled IT organization that can manage it.  Now you have the best of both worlds.