New Survey Shows Confusion And Urgency About Hybrid Cloud Storage, Opening Door To MSPs

By Michael Tso, CEO of Cloudian

The IT landscape today is undergoing a rapid transformation, moving from a computer and automation-based economy, where success for organizations was often measured by the power of machines in a traditional data center, to an economy based on data processed and stored in the cloud.

In this new model, businesses gain a competitive edge by collecting data about their customers, products and processes. They analyze this data in real time to uncover insights and then quickly apply this intelligence to customer-facing promotions and internal process optimization. During each step of this process, businesses rely on flexible cloud-based infrastructures to process these enormous volumes of data.

But how can businesses without the in-house IT talent to develop, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructures take part in this transformation?

Managed service providers (MSPs) with expertise in cloud technologies can take advantage of a fast-growing opportunity to act as trusted advisors and cloud solution implementers for clients seeking to play a role in this new data-focused economy. That’s one of the conclusions found in a survey conducted by Cloudian, a provider of hybrid cloud object storage systems, examining IT decision makers in the U.S. and U.K. The survey, which includes data from 409 C-level respondents and was completed in November 2016, revealed a curious mix of hope, urgency and apprehension about cloud storage solutions for enterprises.