Insight Expands Managed Backup Services with New Consumption-Based Model
February 12 2018 - 8:30AM
Insight Enterprises has announced a new Backup-as-a-Service
offering featuring monthly, consumption-based pricing, and the
ability to leverage on-demand, public cloud IT resources to support
usage spikes. Industries of all types experience IT demand spikes.
Examples include retailers during the holidays and cyclical
shopping seasons, media and telco providers, and manufacturers when
developing and manufacturing new products.
The new offering from Insight’s Cloud and Data Center
Transformation division, Datalink, also supports a full range of
on- and off-site enterprise workloads. Enterprise workload backup
requirements are often not fully addressed by public cloud
providers or conventional managed backup services.
Our data protection services portfolio helps clients achieve a
10-25% reduction in backup-related operational costs. In addition,
Insight’s cloud and data center transformation services help reduce
the tension IT leaders face when simultaneously running and
innovating the business with day-to-day backup administration and
monitoring.
“Our new Backup-as-a-Service offering allows backup strategies
to be tailored precisely to the needs of the enterprise with
flexible per-terabyte pricing that eliminates the need to pay for
fixed capacity that may not be used. Our clients have been asking
for this model to help them meet their organizational needs, so
they can focus on supporting business outcomes. With the managed
backup lineup, we can now help our clients manage for today and
transform for the future,” said Shawn O’Grady, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Datalink, a division of Insight.
Key benefits of Insight Backup-as-a-Service include:
- Variable capacity with a usage-based, 100% OpEx pricing
model, eliminating upfront capital investment as well as
amortized monthly costs for hardware infrastructure or software
licenses
- Burstable bandwidth to address seasonal
variations, merger and acquisition needs, and other scenarios where
backup volumes exceed expected thresholds
- Full coverage of all enterprise workloads in private,
public and hybrid clouds, including endpoints,
applications, databases, files, web resources, virtual and physical
servers, Unix and Linux systems, and more – whether located at the
client site, Insight’s data center, colocation facility and/or
public cloud
- Custom design and architecture of the backup
solution to meet enterprise data retention requirements
for different workloads, each organization’s Recovery Point
Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and other
enterprise-specific policies
- Compliance management and reporting, including
the ability to execute audit restores in order to fulfill specific
audit requirements
Clients also benefit from Datalink OneCall™ customer support,
which provides a single support number to resolve trouble incidents
with technologies from multiple vendors.
“IT organizations today need comprehensive backup solutions to
support their diverse enterprise workloads, on-premises platforms,
and compliance requirements. At the same time, they are under
intense pressure to minimize costs with the pay-as-you-go pricing
available from public cloud providers. However, when it comes
enterprise workloads, public cloud backup programs often provide
limited technology coverage and regulatory support capabilities,”
said O’Grady.
Backup-as-a-Service is the newest addition to a broad portfolio
of Insight data center operational services that help clients
maximize operational efficiency by outsourcing administration of
networks, servers, storage, virtualization, voice, both private and
public cloud environments and other assets. Details are available
at https://www.datalink.com/Services/Managed-Services.
About InsightToday, every business is a
technology business. Insight Enterprises, Inc. empowers companies
of all sizes, government organizations, and healthcare and
educational institutions with Insight Intelligent Technology
Solutions™ to realize their goals. As a Fortune 500-ranked global
provider of hardware, software, cloud and service solutions, our
more than 6,000 teammates give clients the guidance and expertise
needed to define, architect, implement and manage technology today
while transforming for tomorrow. Discover more at insight.com.
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Contacts: Cheryl Scholz
Datalink, a division of Insight
Tel. (952) 279-4829
Email: CHERYL.SCHOLZ@INSIGHT.COM
Scott Walters
Insight Enterprises
Tel. (480) 889-9798
Email: scott.walters@insight.com
Ariel
Kouvaras
Sloane & Company
Tel. (212) 446-1884
Email: AKOUVARAS@SLOANEPR.COM
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