Modern companies rely heavily on their IT environment to maintain business operations. These computing systems are typically used to support internal productivity and business-critical processes and provide services to existing and prospective customers. Degraded performance or inconsistent system availability can seriously hinder a company’s ability to conduct business.
In today’s ultra-competitive business landscape companies need to gain an advantage in any way possible. Managed IT services offer a streamlined method for enhancing business operations. Let’s look at some of the specific ways your company can enhance business operations with reliable managed services.
Data protection
Data is one of a company’s most valuable assets. Effectively protecting data resources can be challenging for several reasons.
- Developing an in-house backup infrastructure typically requires a substantial hardware and software investment.
- Implementing and maintaining the backup solution may demand specialized technical skills.
- Storing backup copies offsite requires additional expense and media management.
Managed backups leveraging cloud resources offer companies a streamlined method of protecting their valuable information. Using the cloud minimizes the cost necessary to implement an on-premises backup solution. The service provider manages the backup solution, freeing IT personnel to focus on other value-added activities. Backing up to the cloud also directly addresses the desire to store backups offsite.
VAST’s Cloud Backup-as-a-Service (CBaaS) offering is built using Druva’s advanced data protection capabilities. It addresses the backup and recovery needs of any type of computing environment from on-premises to public cloud. The solution provides customers with benefits that include:
- Aligning your business strategy with a customized backup solution;
- Eliminating the cost of building and maintaining a backup infrastructure;
- Immutable backups of sensitive information for regulatory compliance;
- Fixed pricing to facilitate IT budgeting.
Providing an effective, affordable, and easily managed data protection solution positively affects many aspects of your business operations.
Disaster recovery
Companies that rely on their IT environment for business-critical processes must be prepared to handle a disaster affecting their systems and data resources. Organizations can be hit with unexpected outages caused by human error, cyberattacks, or natural disasters like hurricanes or earthquakes. An extensive outage can force a company out of business.
Unfortunately, creating an effective disaster recovery plan presents multiple challenges that may be beyond a company’s technical and administrative capabilities. An ill-conceived or untested plan can result in a false sense of security which can be devastating when attempts to recover from a disaster are unsuccessful.
Managed disaster recovery services such as those offered by VAST allow any company to protect its IT environment. The experts at VAST can plan and implement a disaster recovery plan that enables you to rapidly recover critical systems and applications. The service minimizes downtime and allows you to resume operations with minimal disruption to your business.
Following are some of the highlights of VAST’s Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution.
- VAST’s experts will help develop a plan tailored to your business requirements.
- The service is built with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and can support any size environment.
- Save costs by eliminating idle recovery resources and only pay for the site when needed.
- Recover applications within minutes and perform disaster recovery tests without specialized skills.
- Recover from on-premises or cloud environment to AWS resources.
- Recover applications to alternate AWS regions for enhanced resiliency.
Public cloud services
Many companies can benefit from the offerings available from public cloud service providers (CSPs). Organizations can enjoy advantages such as cost savings, access to cutting-edge technology, flexibility, and scalability by migrating their IT environment to the cloud. Moving to the cloud enables a company to better address today’s constantly evolving business requirements and remain competitive.
In some cases, companies may be reluctant to move to the cloud despite being interested in its potential benefits. It can be a daunting task to plan and execute a cloud migration without prior experience. After the migration, the new resources need to be managed efficiently to achieve the advantages of the public cloud.
VAST offers it customers managed public cloud migration and support services. We can help get you to the cloud and effectively manage your new resources.
Managed public cloud migration and support services include:
- Cloud assessment to determine the viability of the migration;
- Security buildout to ensure your systems and data are safe in the cloud;
- Migration services to perform the move from on-premises to cloud infrastructure;
- Cloud monitoring and management to control costs and optimize the use of cloud resources;
- Managed detection and response to prevent threats from affecting your business;
- Disaster recovery management to design a resilient plan to address large-scale outages.
On-premises infrastructure
Companies with on-premises environments may have valid reasons for not migrating to the cloud. Organizations may feel more comfortable with housing their systems in a private facility. They may be affected by a lack of technical skills or staff limitations that degrade system performance and the ability to meet customer demands.
VAST’s on-premises infrastructure support encompasses a variety of services that can enhance your business operations. Our managed infrastructure services include:
- Technology assessments by our experienced technical team to identify potential issues and recommend techniques and solutions to optimize system performance;
- Performance monitoring and incident response to avoid disruptions to your business operations;
- Vulnerability management to identify and address vulnerabilities that put your business at risk.
Multi-cloud environments
VAST View is a comprehensive cloud management platform that addresses the complexities of today’s popular multi-cloud environments. VAST View facilitates planning and managing all phases of cloud migration and the resulting environment. The platform provides visibility into all components of your cloud infrastructure.
VAST View takes your company from discovery through the assessment and planning of your cloud migration. We then schedule and perform the migration while maintaining data security and synchronization. Once settled in the cloud, we work to optimize the environment so you get the most out of the move. Data governance and orchestration round out the services available in the VAST View ecosystem.
VAST Has Your Back With Reliable Managed Services
VAST IT Services offers a full portfolio of managed services to address the computing environment of virtually any type of business. Get in touch with us today and let us enhance your business operations with managed services designed to fit your business objectives.
