This is really a tkrciy question, very useful to solicit discussions butit is also a wrong question. From an IT perspective managed services areany kind of service that is provided by a third party to which IT transferthe ownership of service cost and risk after having negotiated a servicelevel (SLA) and a price. Cloud Computing is a specific consumption anddelivery model for IT services. From an enterprise IT perspective CloudComputing can become a type of managed services when an external provideris involved. Different conditions can occur, the external provider can forexample:- manage a client-owned on premise private cloud- host and manage aclient-owned private cloud- manage public cloud services for multipleclients
