Veeam sees acceleration
of cloud adoption and growing customer expectations as the biggest catalysts
for significant change through 2016
CAIRO, Egypt, 14th
December, 2015: There’s no doubt that 2015 will be seen as the year wearables
went mainstream, the time that beacons became more widespread to truly enable
the Internet of Things, and when a white-and-gold (or blue-and-black) dress sent the
internet into a frenzy.
With analytics moving to the fore and
an ever increasing number of businesses focused on delivering services across
what Gartner calls The Device Mesh, “an expanding set of endpoints people use
to access applications and information or interact with people, social
communities, governments and businesses”, the pressure on today’s IT
infrastructure is ever-growing. Veeam feels that four key trends will drive the
next 12 months of enterprise IT management in Egypt and define our experiences
– both in the workplace and as consumers.
Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle
East and SAARC at Veeam®
Software
looks ahead to the top technology trends that will affect businesses in 2016:
1)
The Criticality of
Availability: In 2016, the Internet of Things brings availability to the fore.
The rise of mobile and connected devices demonstrates that there is zero
tolerance for downtime. All organisations – from a consumer facing business, a
mobile service provider or the stock market, the days of organisations being
able to suffer through any downtime are long gone. Even a slight outage of a
few hours will cause everyone involved in the business to be unhappy that they
don’t have access, but more importantly, businesses will lose money, data,
respect of employees, credibility from partners and loyalty of customers, doing
potential damage to consumer and investor confidence. As the Internet of Things
continues to gather momentum, the potential cost of downtime is set to
escalate. Minimising downtime and data loss is critical to the overall health
of all businesses and ensuring the end user remains satisfied. In addition,
since more data and services are now both on premises and in the cloud,
businesses in 2016 will need to ensure they have strategies to backup, protect
and restore their data on all fronts.
2)
Legacy Thinking,
Applications and Systems Must Not Stifle Innovation: The industry has seen
significant growth in the capabilities of infrastructure and delivery models,
but many organizations haven’t modernized their application footprint in
alignment with the velocity of the changes to technologies around these legacy applications.
Over the next year, companies will draw the line and migrate to the next
generation of application technologies to keep up with competitors. There are
clear advantages to making use of the newest infrastructure and application
technologies, but there have been some blockages in the past. For example,
current staff may be entrenched; or legacy applications may be foreseen to be
“required forever”. Today there are techniques to modernize nearly any
application, and for the legacy applications that need to be held around for
retention reasons, infrastructure technologies today can keep obsolete
operating systems and applications online. This migration to the next
generation of applications will not be easy for some businesses, but will be
worth it to deliver on the bottom line. Companies will see new benefits from an
IT perspective; but also have a unique opportunity to re-evaluate their
business. Migrating away from these systems will enable businesses to offer new
services that meet the demand of an Always-On workforce and customer base.
3)
Big Data Will Appear
to Shrink: harnessing and capitalizing on big data will remain critical for
businesses, but as the cost of storage continues to fall, it will become the
norm over next year. Big data will drop its “big” label and instead come to be
viewed simply as data to be harnessed effectively for customers, partners and
staff. Businesses will be able to increasingly focus on interfaces and
connecting end users to data, further elevating the importance of availability
of service delivery. It’s
expected that 2016 will see increased adoption of virtual reality (Oculus,
Microsoft Hololens), motion-based interfaces, speech recognition and 3D
printing as a means to manufacture. For business, the IT interface is changing
too: in the face of explosive data growth, traditional data management
techniques no longer apply. The operator interface will focus increasingly on
automation and data lifecycle management to ensure the right data is in the
hands of the right person at the right time.
4)
The Emergence of
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service: As cloud-based infrastructure continues to
become the de facto standard for businesses, we're seeing new service offerings
grow in popularity and market share. For example, many companies are
increasingly implementing cloud-based Security as a Service within their
business to help combat cyberattacks and ensure business continuity. Veeam
predicts Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) to be a game changer in 2016,
as it will enable businesses to meet and exceed customer and employee
expectations around availability. As businesses place IT and availability at
the center of their operations, we can expect to see service level agreements
with guaranteed backup and recovery times becoming the standard for the modern
enterprise.
-Ends-
About Veeam Software
Veeam® recognizes the new challenges
enterprises of all sizes across the globe face in enabling the Always-On
Business™, one that must operate 24/7/365. To address this, Veeam has
pioneered a new market of Availability
for the Always-On Enterprise™. Unlike “Legacy Backup” solutions which
provide recovery time (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) of hours or
days, Veeam helps enterprises meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™)
of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. This is achieved through a fundamentally new
kind of holistic solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss
avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage,
and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations
save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational
costs.
Founded in
2006, Veeam currently has 34,500 ProPartners and more than 168,000 customers
worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the
company has offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit http://www.veeam.com.