A combination of security threats, digital transformation projects, AI adoption, data sprawl, and efforts to build out a hybrid cloud strategy have dramatically increased complexity for your customers’ IT leaders.
In fact, Enterprise Strategy Group has found that as digitization progresses, 9 in 10 organizations say they expect to function in a much more complex IT environment over the next two years.
Simon Robinson, principal analyst for storage and converged infrastructure at the Enterprise Strategy Group, says five trends drive this IT complexity:
- Security challenges: The rise of ransomware attacks and other forms of malware has made security a board-level issue. It’s no longer just the purview of the CIO and CISO – security today starts with the board and the CEO and has to include every unit in the company. Bottom line: Any new product or application has to have bullet-proof security, or it won’t succeed.
- Digital transformation: The sheer process of bringing on AI-enabled capabilities while managing the company’s existing legacy IT infrastructure has caused serious challenges for IT staffs. Customers are asking for vendors to help onboard these new AI technologies in a safe, secure, and compliant way.
- Hybrid cloud: Organizations want to enrich their infrastructures using their own data. Since most of that data in on-premises, it’s become challenging for companies to move that data to the cloud in a way that minimizes complexity and drives consistency.
- Data growth: Today, there’s more data in more places on the network than ever before. Data resides on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and on remote devices. Understanding where all their data resides and how to maximize its potential has become challenging.
- Regulatory climate: Regulations like the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in Europe and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SECs) breach reporting rules have put the onus on companies to be more responsible for resiliency.
How to solve the hybrid cloud challenge
So given all these many challenges, how can MSPs and IT solution providers help organizations connect their on-premises and cloud infrastructures so they can run efficiently?
Rollen Roberson, vice president for hyperscalers and cloud at Hitachi Vantara, said Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP) running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help organizations meet the many challenges of integrating on-premises data with cloud data.
“VSP One unifies data and offers flexibility regardless of whether the company runs data on-premises, in the cloud, or in a software-defined environment,” said Roberson. “MSPs can tell their customers that they don’t have to change their data, don’t have to change apps, they can simply move to the cloud via AWS.”
Roberson added that VSP One is built with resiliency in mind. Hitachi Vantara guarantees 100% data availability, modern storage assurance, and effective capacity across all its solutions, offering organizations a resilient data foundation for hybrid cloud they can build at scale.
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