Enhancing Business Agility with Storage as a Service
In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, organizations need to be agile and responsive to changing market conditions. One way to achieve this agility is through flexible and scalable IT infrastructure. However, traditional storage models can be expensive and inflexible, making it difficult to adapt.
Consider Storage as a Service (STaaS), a cloud-like pay-as-you-go storage consumption model. It delivers a more flexible and cost-effective approach to data storage. STaaS solutions offer simplified storage-capacity management on demand. They also eliminate the guesswork around long-term, big-ticket storage purchases while minimizing the occurrence of unplanned, costly emergency purchases.
Why the as-a-Service model is gaining traction
Leaders are becoming increasingly hesitant to invest heavily in capital infrastructure due to the rising market unpredictability. Consequently, new methods of IT consumption, like the as-a-Service (aaS) model, have become more popular to reduce the risk of unnecessary capital expenditure.
The aaS model is a pricing structure based on consumption of infrastructure, which is usually purchased through CapEx. This new approach enables organizations to pay only for what they use, rather than purchasing infrastructure in large quantities. This cloud-like approach offers several benefits. They include:
· Lower initial costs
· Scalability up or down as needed
· Predictable and transparent costs that can be adjusted on demand
Additionally, migrating workloads to a modern platform can enhance security and enable companies to safely leverage aaS to size-fit their needs. As businesses innovate at an accelerated pace, flexible infrastructure is necessary to adapt and achieve new levels of business agility. Leaders are grappling with mounting levels of technical debt, and aaS offers an ideal solution.
The rise of organizational data and the need for flexible infrastructure
The increasing amount of organizational data necessitates a flexible infrastructure and payment model to maintain a stable environment as the business evolves. This simplifies capacity planning and enables leaders to focus on performance and meet business needs.
Capacity planning for storage is one of the most challenging aspects of a CapEx purchasing model. IT experts agree, in an evolving market, predicting storage needs can be extremely difficult. Storage solutions have also evolved from traditional data centers to a more cloud-connected environment.
Transitioning to cloud-based environments does brings about new requirements for storage consumption. However, STaaS is a revolutionary data storage solution that offers a flexible and cost-effective way to manage data storage needs. Adopting a consumption-based model simplifies storage capacity management through on-demand storage solutions, eliminating the need for long-term, big-ticket storage purchases that require extensive planning and can be even costlier in emergency situations.
With STaaS, organizations can enhance their on-premises performance while also supporting hybrid and public cloud initiatives. This enables organizations to confidently scale up or down as needed, addressing market fluctuations. Like other aaS models, STaaS offers a way for leaders to reconcile the risks associated with cloud adoption and business uncertainty with the ability to rapidly scale their operations.
Why Insight for STaaS
Leaders see the business landscape evolving before their eyes. At Insight, we partner with industry-leading vendors and storage solution providers to provide tailored STaaS solutions that offer the agility they need to meet their customers’ needs.
With over 25 years of experience in the storage industry, Insight is uniquely positioned to guide organizations through their storage journeys. Our strong partnerships help teams around the world maintain their infrastructure environments with confidence.
STaaS is a revolutionary data-storage approach that offers organizations the flexibility they need to adapt to changing business requirements. Through a consumption-based pricing model, organizations reduce capital expenditures, simplify capacity planning and increase business agility. With Insight’s STaaS solution, organizations enjoy limitless storage on demand, reduced financial risk and simplified capacity planning, while maintaining the required performance and security of their new storage environment.
