How will cloud computing impact IT managed service providers?

The role of MSPs (and Cloud Service Providers/CSPs) is becoming more prominent with each passing year. The likelihood of legislation being written which impacts MSPs is high. In fact, such laws have already been enacted in China, requiring the assistance of technology companies in assisting the Chin

If anything, the increased use of cloud computing will see MSP's see considerable growth due to the fact that many companies that once performed their hosting/compute internally rather than outsourcing either the physical housing of the equipment to a third party data center or to a managed hosting

Hi, If you intend to say IT managed service providers who offer dedicated/shared hosting then the answer is 'yes', their business may be on the toss. E.g. if you are aware of Rackspace which is one of the renowned managed service providers to survive they have tied up with AWS and other cloud comput