Cheat sheet for improved hosted and managed services

9 best practices for addressing critical business challenges

Published September 2017

We spend lots of time at NetApp SolidFire focusing on enabling our service providers to achieve their goals. Consistently over the last four years, service providers Fueled by SolidFire have reported the following business outcomes:

• Monetizing their storage like never before • Streamlining operations • Winning more customer applications • Reducing risk

But these service providers have characteristics in common that might be helpful in setting the direction of your services. These are common characteristics or best practices witnessed in hundreds of successful service providers across the globe. Some are storage specific and some are more general in nature in market approach.