Mention ‘Managed Service Provider’ or ‘MSP’ to someone and you can often get a mixed reaction. Many react negatively because the concept of the MSP has so often been associated with another word: outsourcing. That single word can draw such intense emotional responses from people that they immediately shutdown, and opt not to listen to what separates outsourcing from managed services. Just to be sure we have that clear right up front, outsourcing is not managed services.
At its core, Virtualization is a technology that allows two or more similar or disparate operating systems to run independent of each other on the same physical computing platform. These computing platforms can be Servers or PC’s/Laptops.