Three Ways STaaS Helps Businesses Modernize On-Premises Infrastructure

The rush to cloud has experienced a bit of a backlash, as organizations realize that it’s become too complex to port their legacy business apps to the cloud. Also, companies overspent on cloud apps, and storage apps cost too much money to run in the cloud – and often don’t deliver the required performance. 91% of IT managers say the combination of on-premises data centers with modernization tools such as Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) delivers a strategic advantage to their businesses. “Even the cloud-first organizations we talked to said that the future lies with a hybrid cloud." Scott Sinclair, practice director at Tech Target’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Albert Gammer, director at the Australia-based MSP Gammer Group, adds that many of his customers tell him that they want his team to help them identify which cloud apps make sense to keep and then modernize their data centers with STaaS. "People also like that as the systems integrator we can do much of the work remotely, the customer doesn’t have to add people internally." Albert Gammer Based on ESG research, there are at least three benefits MSPs can bring to their customers by modernizing the data center with STaaS: - Agility and speed - Cost optimization - Improved experience for employees