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Chapter 1: Your Workloads, Your Options 5 These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. improve agility. Some examples include containers, hypercon verged, lowering cost of flash storage, and more. In addition, there are options available on the market that can assist with reducing upfront payments for hardware and software. Managed service providers People are the most expensive resource that you have in the budget. They can also be the most unreliable sometimes, and it seems like there are never enough of the right ones around when you need them. It can be exceedingly difficult to find people with the perfect combination of skills and experience to be able to meet all your business goals. That's where man aged services come in. Managed service providers are companies that can take some of the burden off you and your staff by augmenting your resources and, in some cases, take over complete manage ment of certain services. As technology continues to become more complex and grows throughout an organization, a man aged services contract can mean the difference between suc cess and failure. Hosting and colocation Not every organization is gifted with plentiful physical space in which to build out a massive data center. Not every orga nization has the advantage of being located in a bandwidth‐ laden setting. For these and many other reasons, hosting and colocation have long been options for chief information officers (CIOs). In a hosting or colocation scenario, you basically drive all or some of your servers, storage, and data center networking equipment to someone else's data center and you rack and stack everything there. The provider supplies you with all the physical space, power, cooling, and bandwidth you need to get your services up and running. Colocation can provide you with a way to get services deployed without having to build out or expand an existing data center environment, which can be incredibly expensive. With such services, there are generally options available to