Blog Experience Uncapped Business Agility With Storage as a Service
By Steven Walters / 7 Mar 2024 / Topics: Data center Modern infrastructure As a service
Now more than ever, companies are focused on reducing business uncertainty and CapEx spending. Storage as a Service (STaaS) solutions provide a cloudlike pay-as-you-go storage consumption model. The result: reduced operational costs and more flexibility to scale to new heights.
As a service: Why now?
Due to rising business risk and unpredictability in the market, leaders no longer want to spend big on capital infrastructure with no guarantee of return.
As a result, new methods of IT consumption like the as-a-Service (aaS) model have gained traction to help mitigate the risk of unnecessary capital spend. This approach refers to the consumption-based pricing structure of infrastructure typically purchased through CapEx. With the aaS model, organizations only pay for what they use, as opposed to purchasing infrastructure in bulk. This cloudlike approach enables lower initial outlay, the ability to flex up or down as needed, and a predictable and transparent cost structure — all on demand. Plus, moving workloads to a modern platform unlocks new levels of security so companies can safely leverage aaS to size-fit as needed.
Businesses are innovating faster than before, and having a more flexible infrastructure helps them better adapt to rising needs, providing new levels of business agility. As leaders face growing levels of technical debt in their organizations, aaS becomes an ideal option to mitigate the debt. Eliminating tech debt and moving to a more modern platform can be a powerful use case for aaS methodology.
Organizational data is continuing to soar, and better methods of managing that growth are a must. The rise in data necessitates a flexible infrastructure and payment model to sustain a stable environment as the business evolves. This eases capacity planning and allows leaders to focus on performance and meeting business needs.
A modern alternative to data storage: Storage as a Service
Planning storage capacity is one of the most unpredictable facets of a CapEx purchasing model. In an evolving market, anticipating storage can be very difficult, and IT experts agree that purchasing the exact amount of storage needed can be nearly impossible.
Today, business storage has moved away from traditional data centers and into a more cloud-connected environment. Applying the aaS model to storage transforms the ways organizations procure their storage environment. And as companies move into cloud environments, new needs for storage consumption arise.
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STaaS introduces a flexible data storage method for modern organizations looking to minimize risk, increase performance and cut costs. This flexible, consumption-based model provides simplified storage capacity management on demand. The STaaS solution eliminates the guesswork needed to plan long-term, big-ticket storage purchases (sometimes up to five years in advance) while minimizing the occurrence of unplanned, costly emergency purchases.
STaaS enhances on-premises performance, with the ability to support hybrid and public initiatives as an organization’s cloud strategy develops. Like other aaS models, STaaS is designed to help leaders reconcile the risk from cloud and business uncertainty with the ability to scale rapidly up and down, confidently accommodating the fluctuations of any market.
Insight’s STaaS offering comes with an upfront pricing model that reduces financial risk by simplifying capacity planning, letting companies know exactly how much they will be paying for capacity and performance, and only paying for what they use.
With STaaS, organizations have access to:
- Reduced CapEx in favor of a flexible OpEx model
- Simplified capacity planning with predictable costs
- Limitless storage on demand
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Why Insight for Storage as a Service
Great leaders understand that the business landscape can change with the flip of a coin — and trying to guess long-term storage capacity can sometimes be a shot in the dark.
Insight works with the leading technology partners in as a service solutions, including AMD, Cisco, Dell Technologies, HPE, Intel, Lenovo, NetApp and Pure Storage, giving organizations the agility they need to serve their customers. With more than 25 years in the storage industry, Insight is well positioned to guide you through your storage journey. Our deep partnerships with industry-leading partners and storage solution vendors help teams across the globe be better positioned to maintain their infrastructure environments with confidence.
Gain new levels of agility. Learn how Insight can help you explore better ways to manage storage capacity and create a lasting competitive edge.
Steven Walters
Senior Manager, Strategy and Offering Development, Insight
Steven Walters is the Managed Services Portfolio leader for Insight who covers our recurring services offerings in North America. Our portfolio of services includes X as a Service, Managed Cloud, Managed Infrastructure, Managed Security, and Workplace Services. Insight’s services are delivered by over 1,000 technical resources across the globe operating through a unified service management platform. Steven has over twenty years of experience in IT services ranging from professional to consulting and managed services. Additionally, Steven has a passion for working directly with clients. He helps them solve business challenges, create solutions, and lead teams through complex consulting and implementation projects.
