How moving to DRaaS can Fuel Innovation and Growth

Focus on growth with DRaaS

The top three business initiatives remain unchanged from last year. Digital transformation, cybersecurity, and cloud remain relevant because they help reduce IT costs and enable new business strategies and models. They also make new products and services possible and create new streams of revenue.

Unfortunately, IT spending is standing on its head, with 64% spent running the business and 36% on growth and innovation. Cloud adoption and DRaaS help in better aligning IT spending and business objectives.

Nothing highlights the urgency of reigning in costs more than the 3X increase in enterprises’ cost savings initiatives over last year.1

Is now the time for DRaaS?

The argument in favor of cloud alternatives is over, and the time to embrace DRaaS is overdue. By 2023, more than half of x86 servers’ workloads in internal data centers will use the public cloud for DR.2 Furthermore, cloud software will make up 30% of total budgets surpassing the 24% earmarked for on-premises software. 62% of companies will reduce their use of internal data centers in the next two years.2

The shift to cloud and SaaS consumption is driven by powerful technology and business changes that brought us to the tipping point:

  • Runaway costs. Lack of real-time visibility into IT spend leads to budget overruns in more than 24% of It projects, with about 30% of spend going to waste.3 Manual processes and the absence of quality data complicate cost optimizing initiatives. There is light at the end of this tunnel. Cloud adoption and IT modernization helped 60% of companies realize cost efficiencies and savings.4
  • Data sprawl. IDC estimates that the amount of digital data to be created over the next five years will be greater than that twice the amount of data created since the advent of digital storage.” The cloud makes managing exponential data growth effortless.5
  • Cyber threats. Protecting against cyberattacks requires an air-tight security posture and reliable DR plans. While the impact of cyberattacks is evident today, analysts expected that one organization would fall victim to ransomware every 11 seconds by the end of 2021.6
  • Skillset gap. The increase in cloud adoption and rising IT spending exacerbates the acute shortage of technical IT talent worldwide. Adopting cloud and DRaaS reduces IT overhead and budgets.

Improve visibility and control spend

The benefits of adopting cloud and DRaaS solutions are numerous and cover more than the core cost savings and business continuity.

  • Visibility and cost savings. Financial reports and are available in real-time, offering better-informed decisions. The cloud consumption-based utility model helped 60% of companies improve financial gains and efficiencies by moving away from Capex investments to budget-friendly OpEx.7
  • Optimized cloud costs. Fine-tune cloud resources to applications requirements to avoid over-provisioning and overspending. Cloud adoption helped companies keep IT spend to only 7.5% of revenue.8
  • New revenue streams. Nearly 58% of companies could capitalize on cloud innovations and create new products and services with additive revenue streams.9
  • Availability and uptime. Maintaining the business engines running is vital to business survival. About 54% of enterprises saw an improvement in business availability with cloud adoption.10
  • Higher customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is job one for everyone. Embracing the cloud helped 56% of companies improve customer experience and satisfaction.11
  • Turn data into business value. Data is the most valuable digital asset. Nearly 56% of companies using the cloud model improved their ability to extract business value from data. Visibility, accessibility and data analytics tools facilitate growing business value.12
  • Maintain security and compliance. Companies can use cloud DRaaS to respond to audits and demonstrate compliance with data regulations through proper reporting and documentation. Security remains the top challenge for 81% of organizations.13

Sources:

1, 5, 8. Flexera 2021. “The State of Tech Spend Report.

2. Gartner March 2021. “Market Guide for Consumption-Based Pricing for Data Center infrastructure.

4, 7, 9-12. IDG 2020. “The State of IT Modernization 2020.”

3,13. Flexera 2021. “Flexera 2021 Stare of the Cloud.

5. IDC March 2021. “Data Creation and Replication will Grow at a Faster rate than Installed Storage Capacity.

6. Gartner April 2020. “Survey Analysis. IT Disaster Recovery Trends and Benchmarks.”

2021 Christmas Wrap

Another year is coming to a close, we hope that everyone will enjoy a safe and happy holiday period.

We thought we’d take a quick look back at everything that’s happened in 2021, as we start to look forward to next year.

Delivering Innovation

Business Resiliency and Security have firmly come to the forefront of our technology conversations with clients this year. We’ve taken this opportunity to drive innovation by releasing two new solutions in Security as a Service and SaaS Backup as a Service to help clients address these needs.

ThreatReady specifically helps our clients identify and report on vulnerabilities within their network, providing increased visibility. This allows the right resources to be deployed at the right time. SaaSReady tightly integrates data protection services for O365, Salesforce, MS Dynamics and Google Cloud. We’re also investing in native multi-cloud backup services for AWS and Azure public cloud environments.

In case you missed it, we’ve also rolled out a new website featuring a blog that we think is worthy of a bookmark.

A little recognition

Continuing our drive to be the best in the data protection space, we are proud that we’re the only Australian partner to hold the VMWare Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service certification.

We also took home the NetApp APAC Solution Innovation Award for our Backup-as-a-Service solution.

2021 has seen Global Storage achieve a huge milestone, successfully passing ISO 27001 certification. This certification further strengthens the mature process and methodology Global Storage brings to every customer project.

New faces and new territories

This year also saw James Mackie (Regional Sales Director) and Russell Wagenaar (Client Success Manager) join our leadership team. Both James and Russell are well known and highly respected within the IT community. Their addition to our team will help us expand our service offerings into the New South Wales and Queensland markets off the back of growing client demands.

For our NSW based friends, James is in Sydney, so feel free to reach out to him for a chat and to say hello.

Finally, a few words from our CEO, David Duncan

It is fair to say that 2020/2021 and living with COVID has undoubtedly raised some complexities and challenges, with some industries being more impacted than others. Huge credit goes to our team, who have worked tirelessly in difficult and often trying situations to make sure it is business as usual for Global and our customers.

Moving into 2022, we see customers continuing their rapid migration into the cloud, but at the same time taking a magnifying glass out and looking hard at the growing costs of the cloud services their business consumes.  Global Storage is committed to guiding our customers on this journey and helping them better understand ways to optimise dollars being spent and reduce their ongoing operational costs.

We really appreciate the trust that you put in us, as clients and partners, and we’ll continue to deliver above expectations for you. We look forward to seeing what 2022 brings.

As a final note – the extended team are taking a well-deserved break this year. We’ll be running critical staff only from Dec 24th until Jan 17th. As always, you’ll be able to access support when you need it.

From our team to yours,

Happy Holidays.

The faces of the Global Storage team on elf bodies

New faces at Global Storage

We’ve got a couple of new faces here at Global Storage, and we thought it only appropriate to introduce them to you!

James Mackie

James Mackie – Regional Director

James joins us after an eight-year stint at NTT as a Sales Director and is based out of our Sydney office. James has taken the leap to join Global Storage knowing that “we’re in the right place, at the right time to take advantage of current market conditions”. 

James is responsible for building out our presence in New South Wales and Queensland, and brings a wealth of experience from the IT industry.

James also joins the increasing kiwi contingent that is growing within the Global Storage family. Outside of work (and lockdowns) you’ll find James spending time with his two young daughters, keeping fit, or having an early morning surf out a Maroubra beach.

https://www.itwire.com/people-moves/global-storage-appoints-james-mackie-as-sales-chief.html

Want to connect with James? https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdmackie/

Russell Wagenaar – Customer Success Manager

Russell joins us with great experience as Service Delivery Manager at Ethan Group, and previously Geomatic Technologies.

Russell is excited to join the Global Storage team because, in his own words, “Global Storage’s have a well-established reputation and strong track record in the IT industry. Global Storage are simply great at what they do and do it very well!”

Russell is always focused on other people, whether that be putting himself in his customer shoes or encouraging his children to get out and enjoy what the outdoors has to offer. Living close to the beach, you’ll find him and his family there all year round.

Want to connect with Russell? https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-wagenaar-10809015/

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