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“ Our customers are dealing with increasingly diverse and complex environments as their hybrid and multi-cloud deployments grow. These customers want the freedom to choose the best environments and consumption models for their traditional and cloud native applications, which all drive a variety of business benefits. Yet, as this research bears out, while many customers are embracing cloud, most are still in the early stages of their journey to an optimised cloud model. That is where our new and enhanced Cisco Professional Services can help. Working with our partners, our joint services offerings are designed to help customers achieve a highly secure and optimised cloud environment specific to their unique business needs,” said Mike Weston, Vice President, Cisco Middle East.
The Cisco-sponsored InfoBrief“ Cloud Going Mainstream: All Are Trying, Some Are Benefiting; Few Are Maximizing Value” was developed by International Data Corporation( IDC). The study is based on primary market research conducted with executives responsible for IT decisions in over 6,100 organisations across 31 countries that are successfully implementing private, public and hybrid clouds in their IT environments. This marks the second year of the study, nearly doubling last year’ s sample size.
In the study, IDC identifies five levels of cloud maturity: ad hoc, opportunistic, repeatable, managed and optimised.
According to the study, organisations face a number of obstacles to achieving greater cloud maturity, including capabilities and skills gaps, lack of a well-defined strategy and roadmap, legacy siloed organisational structures, and Information Technology / Line of Business( IT / LOB) misalignment.
Commvault launches new AWS Cloud data protection model
Commvault has launched new reference architectures for Amazon Web Services( AWS) to enable customers to simplify data protection and management with a pre-optimised, easy to deploy, and validated solution. Available through Commvault direct and on AWS Marketplace, the reference architectures provide enterprises with clear guidance on how the Commvault Data Platform can help organisations optimise their use of the AWS Cloud for backup, archive and recovery. Commvault also announced that existing customers can apply their licenses to applications enabled through AWS Marketplace. Additionally, customers will have the ability to easily direct data storage to specific AWS services – such as Amazon Simple Storage Service( Amazon S3), Amazon S3 Standard – Infrequent Access( Amazon S3-IA) and Amazon Glacier.
The validated Commvault reference architectures with AWS further simplify hybrid infrastructure data protection for Commvault customers while also reducing cost, improving agility and speeding deployment of Commvault Software with the AWS Cloud for backup, archive and recovery.
“ AWS and Commvault share a commitment to helping enterprises incorporate the cloud into their data protection strategies,” said Terry Wise, Vice President of the Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc.“ The launch of these new validated reference architectures from Commvault further simplifies the use of the Commvault Data Platform with the AWS Cloud for our joint customers, helping them to accelerate the implementation of data protection projects that lower operating and capital expenses while still providing reliable, secure and quick access to their business data.”
“ Given our success using this cloud data protection model, I expect other customers to thrive using Commvault’ s reference architecture with AWS to improve SLA’ s for recovery, reduce infrastructure costs and eliminate tape management,” said Shaown Nandi, VP and Head of Infrastructure and Cloud, Dow Jones.“ To date, we have moved more than 50 percent of our infrastructure into the cloud and with Commvault’ s data management solution, have the flexibility to manage our data on-premise, in the cloud, or wherever we need it to be. Today, we have a resilient data protection model with improved SLA’ s for recovery, reduced infrastructure costs, and no tape management.” www. intelligentcio. com INTELLIGENTCIO
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