In the last three years, 96% of global IT decision-makers have experienced at least one outage. The average downtime following a ransomware attack is three weeks. And according to ITIC’s 2021 Hourly Cost of Downtime survey, 91% percent of mid-sized and large enterprises say just one hour of server downtime would cost them $300,000 or more—half of whom believe it would exceed $1M.

Data is the lifeblood of any business. Without a reliable and robust disaster recovery plan in place, any unexpected disruption—whether from hardware failure, natural disaster, or a cyberattack—can result in data loss, prolonged downtime, crippling financial losses, and reputational damage.

 

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) has emerged as one of the most effective and efficient approaches to disaster recovery in recent years. With the ability to back up all cloud data and applications in a managed data center, the pay-as-you-go cloud service model not only safeguards critical assets, but also ensures rapid restoration, minimizing the impact of disruptions on business operations. In essence, DRaaS simplifies disaster recovery, keeping your business resilient and operational in the face of adversity.

 

Here are some steps you can take to ensure you’re harnessing your DRaaS solution’s full potential to bolster your disaster recovery strategy and protect your business:

 

1. Prioritize your critical assets: Identify and prioritize your organization’s critical data, applications, and systems—and reassess regularly. Not everything requires the same level of protection. By focusing on what’s most important, you streamline your DRaaS strategy and allocate resources more effectively, ensuring the highest level of protection for your most crucial assets.
2. Define clear RTOs and RPOs: To align your recovery efforts with your business goals and needs, clearly define your Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) based on the criticality of your assets. In doing so, you not only tailor your DRaaS solution to meet the specific recovery needs of your business, but you also ensure it is equipped to deliver the required levels of availability and data protection.
3. Regularly test and validate: Conduct regular testing and validation of your DRaaS solution, including planned recovery drills and unexpected failover tests. By routinely putting your DRaaS plan to the test, you can proactively identify any potential weaknesses or gaps in your disaster recovery strategy and fine-tune it as needed.
4. Incorporate automation and orchestration tools: Use automation and orchestration tools to simplify the failover and failback processes. When you automate these critical tasks, you can ensure swift response to disruptions, free of human error, to maintain business continuity.
5. Continuously monitor and make improvements: Regularly review and improve your disaster recovery plan based on lessons learned from testing and real-world incidents. This iterative approach helps you stay proactive in identifying potential vulnerabilities and adapting your DRaaS strategy to evolving threats and business needs.

Disaster recovery is a critical component of your business’s IT strategy. With a DRaaS approach that is well managed, you can solidify a resilient footing against disruptions, safeguard your critical assets, and ensure the continuity of your business operations in the face of what could otherwise be catastrophically damaging events.

At Zunesis, we can help you adopt a comprehensive DRaaS approach that protects your critical data and applications. With advanced expertise in HPE’s backup, recovery, and ransomware protection capabilities, we’ll partner with you to ensure your business stays resilient and operational, even in the face of unexpected events.

For more information, contact us here.

Unifed SASE – Solution for Modern Work Environments

In today’s digital age, the traditional workplace is evolving. Remote work—at least to some degree—is here to stay. Despite the growing trend and many benefits of flexibility, improved work-life balance, and increased productivity, it has also introduced a slew of challenges and areas of opportunity for businesses—chief among them: ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient connectivity for dispersed teams. In response to this shift, businesses must prioritize innovative technologies and strategies that not only accommodate remote workers but also fortify the ever-expanding digital perimeter. Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has emerged as a pivotal solution to address the intricate demands of modern work environments.

Unified SASE is not just another tech buzzword; it’s the answer to modern connectivity and security challenges. By combining Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Security Service Edge (SSE) into one cohesive platform, it gives businesses the best of both worlds: optimized network performance and leading security protocols.

 

How Does Unified SASE Address Remote Workforce Challenges?

From unstable internet connections to security vulnerabilities, remote work comes with its share of unique, and potentially crippling, challenges. Unified SASE addresses many of these concerns by offering:

• Improved Connectivity: With SASE, remote employees can reliably access company resources without the hiccups of traditional VPNs. Intelligent routing ensures traffic takes the most efficient path, minimizing latency, while the unified SASE approach integrates all components for both security and network performance under one umbrella.
• Enhanced Security: As the perimeter of the office expands to homes and coffee shops, so do security risks. Unified SASE solutions can centralize and bolster your defenses. By applying universal policies and streamlining security management across all traffic and locations, you get infinitely more robust protection for your dispersed teams.
• Scalability: As your business grows, so does your remote workforce. These solutions are inherently scalable, which makes it easy to onboard new employees and expand your network infrastructure without compromising on security or performance.
• Simplified Management: Juggling multiple solutions for connectivity and security presents a logistical recipe for disaster. With a this solution, your IT teams can easily configure, monitor, and adjust settings through a centralized dashboard, ensuring consistent policies and performance across the board.

Powering the Future of Remote Work

The remote workforce is here to stay, and your business needs to keep up with the growing trend to remain competitive. Unified SASE offers an integrated and adaptive framework that helps you ensure optimal performance while maintaining the integrity of your security posture.

Unified SASE represents the next step in the evolution of secure, efficient connectivity—and Aruba Networks is at the forefront of this revolution. Offering advanced expertise in Aruba Networks’ SASE technology, Zunesis can help you implement unified this solution to streamline your network management, bolster security across all remote endpoints, and guarantee a seamless, high-performance experience for your dispersed teams.

For more information about unified SASE, contact us here.

Technology and Environmental Responsibility

Today’s sustainability goals are igniting the synergies between technology and environmental responsibility. As businesses continue to expand, the demand for cloud services and IT resources has grown exponentially. But is this digital expansion eco-friendly? And how does the cloud contribute to environmental sustainability?

There is a common perception that because data is stored in the cloud, it is somehow ethereal and has limited impact on the environment. In reality, the infrastructure supporting it has a tangible and profound impact. Data centers, which power the cloud, are among the highest consumers of electric power, while the cooling systems that maintain them require vast amounts of water. Developing new cloud technologies that prioritize energy efficiency and minimize resource consumption while balancing the rapid pace of technological innovation are imperative in ensuring a sustainable digital future.

The good news is that many manufacturers are taking proactive measures to address these environmental concerns, championing innovative solutions that prioritize sustainability without compromising on performance. In fact, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has publicly committed to becoming a net-zero enterprise by 2040, helping businesses advance sustainability agendas with a holistic approach to carbon footprints across the IT estate, edge to cloud.

 

How Zunesis and HPE GreenLake Advance Sustainability

For businesses turning to HPE GreenLake, they’re not just adopting a cutting-edge technology solution, they’re embracing a vision of operational efficiency against the backdrop of environmental responsibility. Specifically, with HPE GreenLake, Zunesis can deliver businesses measurable environmental efficiencies across the following core pillars:

 

• Energy: With optimal compute, storage, and connectivity capabilities that require minimal energy consumption, HPE GreenLake reduces operational costs as well as the environmental impact associated with excessive power usage.

 

• Equipment: HPE GreenLake offers a significantly enhanced IT processing power and storage capacity while minimizing the reliance on physical equipment. This leads to increased output with a substantially reduced environmental footprint.

 

• Resources: Because HPE GreenLake uses technology designed for peak efficiency, it requires significantly less support, staff, and equipment for power conversion, cooling, and resiliency. Fewer resources means a leaner operational model, reduced costs, and a smaller environmental impact.

 

• Software: Using intelligent software that automates environments, HPE GreenLake reduces computational load, which not only streamlines operations but also minimizes the carbon footprint associated with data processing.

 

• Data: HPE GreenLake efficiently gathers and processes data, retaining only the most crucial information for business insights, which minimizes storage demands. This selective data retention both reduces carbon emissions of data centers and curtails associated operational costs.

 

The increasing ubiquity of cloud computing in modern business operations requires an urgent pivot toward sustainable practices. Every bite of data stored, every computational operation performed, and every millisecond of uptime has an energy impact. Cloud sustainability isn’t just a catchphrase—it’s an urgent imperative. As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, it becomes crucial to ensure that the underlying processes are environmentally sound. Massive data accumulation without purposeful use or retention can lead to unnecessary energy consumption.

Zunesis is ready to stand at the forefront of this transformative journey. By delivering efficiency at every step, from equipment to data management, HPE GreenLake represents a holistic re-envisioning of what cloud sustainability can look like. With our advanced expertise in this solution, Zunesis can help you optimize your workloads with less energy and smaller footprints—while maximizing value across the asset lifecycle, engaging in the circular economy.

The education sector has experienced a significant transformation over the last few years, with traditional classrooms expanding into virtual spaces. While this shift has opened up new possibilities and enhanced educational experiences for students and educators, it also exposes educational institutions to more cybersecurity risks.

Ransomware Attacks on the Rise in the Education Sector

Last year, the education sector experienced a staggering 65 individual ransomware attacks, affecting 1,436 schools and as many as 1,074,926 students. These attacks resulted in an estimated cost of $9.45 billion, while individual institutions lost 11.65 days in downtime, on average. The disturbing trend continues in 2023, with 37 confirmed attacks reported in the first half of the year, surpassing the 26 incidents recorded during the same period in 2022.*

The alarming rise in ransomware attacks targeting educational institutions underscores the pressing need for robust campus network security measures. If you’re not taking proactive steps to protect your institution’s network, you leave yourself vulnerable to devastating consequences. This includes data loss, a disrupted learning environment, a tarnished brand image, and, of course, significant financial devastation.

 

Five ways to safeguard your campus network security

Fortunately, there are steps you can take to fortify campus network security and protect your institution from these emerging risks:

 

1. Implement robust authentication protocols: Ensure strong user authentication measures are in place to verify the identity of individuals accessing the network. Consider implementing multi-factor authentication that requires users to provide multiple forms of verification, such as passwords and biometrics data.
2. Regularly update software and firmware: Keep up with the latest patches and security updates to your network devices, operating systems, and applications. Frequent updates radically improve your ability to address dangerous vulnerabilities and protect against potential exploits.
3. Use network segmentation: Contain potential breaches and restrict unauthorized movement within your network using network segmentation. This is where you divide your network into smaller, isolated sections. With more granular control over your network, you can reduce your attack surface while enhancing visibility over your entire network security landscape.
4. Consider intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) tools: Leverage IDPS technology to monitor network traffic, detect potential threats, and proactively block or mitigate attacks. Offering real-time monitoring, threat analysis, and automated response capabilities, IDPS tools significantly bolster your network’s resilience and protect business continuity.
5. Educate and train users: Your network security is only as good as the awareness and actions taken by your users. Hold regular security awareness training sessions for students, faculty, and staff.  Teach them about things like phishing scams, password best practices, and the importance of reporting suspicious activities. By fostering a security-conscious culture, users become an active line of defense against cyber threats.

By taking proactive steps to safeguard your campus network, you can establish a robust defense against evolving cyber threats. This allows your organization to provide a secure and uninterrupted educational experience for your students, faculty, and staff.

Not sure where to start? Zunesis can help. With advanced expertise in Aruba Networks’ comprehensive campus network security solutions, our team can help you protect your network infrastructure. We have the expertise to help you maintain a secure environment for your institution and the students you serve.

To stay competitive and adapt amid a rapidly evolving digital and economic landscape, keeping up with emerging technologies is not a nice-to-have; it’s essential. Those that fail to do so risk falling behind their competitors, missing out on valuable opportunities for growth, efficiency gains, and innovation in today’s highly dynamic and interconnected business environment.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries and driving transformative changes across various sectors. But, as models and data continue to grow, massive computer power is required to train and deploy AI systems.

 

Leveraging AI with HPE Greenlake

HPE GreenLake offers supercomputing capabilities that are equipped to handle the constantly growing demands of AI workloads at scale. And with that, you can unleash the full potential of your AI initiatives, ensure real-time processing of complex data sets, and foster innovation.

Here are five ways HPE GreenLake can help you leverage AI to power growth and maintain your competitive advantage:

1.       Improved productivity: With the ability to power AI models trained on large amounts of textual data, HPE GreenLake can help you leverage AI at a deeper level, using profoundly more data, to tackle emerging AI challenges more effectively, automate processes, streamline operations, and better allocate resources for increased operational efficiencies and productivity.

2.       Data-driven insights: HPE GreenLake delivers a trusted, enterprise-grade AI/ML and analytics cloud-like experience that allows you to mine continuous streams of value from data, uncover trends, identify patterns, and make critical correlations across large-scale data sets. These data-based insights empower you to make more strategic and profitable business decisions to optimize processes, improve customer experiences, and stay ahead of the competition in today’s data-centric business landscape.

 

3.       Quicker time-to-innovation: By providing on-demand access to powerful compute resources in a scalable infrastructure, HPE GreenLake reduces the time required for AI model development, so you can experiment with new ideas, iterate quickly, and adapt to changing market demands. This, in turn, empowers you to bring innovative products, services, and experiences to market faster, while also staying agile and responsive to customer needs.

 

4.       Scalability and flexibility: HPE GreenLake makes it easy for you to scale your AI capabilities as needed to accommodate fluctuating demands and next-generation architecture. Plus, using continuous monitoring, you can right-size capacity and even enable capacity-bursting on-site, on demand.

 

5.       Sustainable AI: Large AI models require massive computing power and energy to train. With its supercomputing capabilities, HPE GreenLake enables you to train, tune and deploy your AI models using renewable energy. Beyond cost efficiencies, a commitment to sustainable AI practices will boost your brand image and may even help you attract and retain top talent.

 

Thriving in Today’s Digital Landscape

As AI continues to take the world by storm, the speed and ease with which you are able to operationalize AI models that can harness massive amounts of data can mean the difference between staying ahead of the competition and falling behind in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. By delivering a trusted, enterprise-grade AI/ML and analytics cloud-like experience, HPE GreenLake can help you rapidly integrate and leverage AI technologies in your business processes—so you can maintain a competitive edge and thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape of today.

Contact Zunesis for more information on how to unlock the power of AI with HPE GreenLake.

 

Zunesis Honored on the 2023 CRN Tech Elite 250 List 

 

Englewood, Colorado — Zunesis, announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has honored Zunesis on its 2023 Tech Elite 250 list.

This annual list features solution providers of all sizes across the U.S and Canada that have differentiated themselves by achieving the highest level and largest breadth of certifications and specializations from key technology vendors in the infrastructure, cloud, and security spaces.

Businesses rely on solution providers to maintain the highest levels of technical prowess across critical products and services to help them meet today’s IT challenges and take advantage of the benefits of cutting-edge solutions. To meet these demands, solution providers such as strategic service providers, systems integrators, managed service providers and value-added resellers strive to maintain high levels of training and certification from IT vendors and achieve the highest tiers within those vendors’ partner programs.

“CRN’s Tech Elite 250 list features the leading solution providers in the IT channel with the most in-depth technical knowledge, expertise, and certifications for providing the highest level of service for their customers,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “These solution providers have continued to extend their aptitudes and abilities across various technologies and IT practices, demonstrating their commitment and value to their customers.

Coverage of the Tech Elite 250 will be featured in the April issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/techelite250.

 

About Zunesis

Zunesis can help your organization compete in the digital economy with infrastructure transformation aligned to your business goals. We have more than 18 years of experience serving customers throughout the Rocky Mountain Region and Southwestern U.S., including Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada. Our staff of solution architects have decades of expertise and in-depth product knowledge to customize IT solutions with success. www.zunesis.com

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Zunesis Contact:
Rachael Stiedemann
Zunesis
rachael.stiedemann@zunesis.com

About The Channel Company  

The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers, and end users. Backed by more than 40 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelcompany.com

 

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The Channel Company

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the world of storage and data management at an unprecedented pace. This emerging technology is not only streamlining the way organizations store, process, and manage enormous volumes of data, but it’s also significantly improving the insights gleaned from this information. Offering advanced algorithms and machine learning capabilities, AI is powering the future of storage and data management—and is expected to transform the way businesses handle and use their data.

 

Here are six ways AI is changing the game:

 

1. Improved data analysis: By identifying intricate patterns and trends in large datasets, AI improves the accuracy and speed of data analysis, leading to quicker and more precise insights. With this higher caliber of insights, you can make quick, well-informed decisions that align with your business goals and support profitability and growth.
2. Predictive maintenance: With the ability to analyze historical data and real-time usage patterns, AI algorithms can be used to predict when equipment failures are likely to occur and proactively flag them to the right people, mitigating the risk of expensive downtime and devastating data loss.
3. Intelligent data storage: AI can analyze data usage patterns and automatically move less frequently accessed data to more cost-effective storage tiers. It also makes it easy for you to quickly locate specific data by indexing and tagging information for easy search and retrieval. With critical data that’s readily available and accessible when you need it, AI technology powers more efficient operations, better resource allocation, and more informed decisions.
4. Better data security: With the ability to identify potential threats and anomalies in data usage patterns, AI technology allows you to take immediate action to prevent major security breaches. Additionally, using AI-driven encryption methods, you can ensure your sensitive data is protected both at rest and in transit, making it infinitely more difficult for hackers to access or steal important information.
5. Automated routine tasks: With the ability to automate routine data management tasks, AI can streamline workflows, minimize processing time, reduce human error, and enhance the overall efficiency of data management processes, ultimately leading to cost savings and increased productivity.
6. Enhanced disaster recovery: AI not only automates backup and recovery processes, but it can also identify potential risks and vulnerabilities and deliver real-time alerts and notifications in the event of an outage or data loss. With a higher degree of control and reliability in your disaster recovery efforts, your business can recover from disasters more quickly to reduce the impact of unexpected events, improve business continuity, and ensure critical operations can be resumed quickly.

Harnessing the Potential of AI-Driven Storage

As organizations generate and store ever-increasing amounts of data, AI will continue to play a crucial role in helping businesses manage and utilize that data to drive innovation, optimize operations, and make data-driven decisions that fuel growth.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), with solutions like HPE InfoSight, is leading the charge in harnessing the potential of AI-driven storage and data management technologies. At Zunesis, we are committed to helping you capitalize on HPE’s AI-powered solutions to ensure a seamless, optimized, and forward-thinking data management strategy tailored to your specific needs and objectives.

For more information about how to transform your storage and data management processes with HPE powered by AI, contact us here.

In today’s digitally driven world, businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on network connectivity to operate effectively. But with increased connectivity also comes increased risk exposure. Cyberattacks are on the rise, and more businesses are succumbing to security breaches, data loss, and other security-related issues. In fact, cybercrime damages are expected to reach $10.5 trillion by 2025. 

Your ability to protect your network from cyberattacks and unauthorized access while maintaining network performance and compliance with regulatory requirements is not a nice-to-have—it’s essential. With a Network Access Control (NAC) system in place, you can safeguard your network infrastructure and your data while maintaining business continuity.

5 Reasons to Implement a Network Access Control System

NAC is a security solution that restricts access to network resources based on users’ identities, roles, and devices. Today, more businesses are turning to NAC solutions, and here’s why:

1. Improve security: Cyberattacks are a significant threat to businesses of all sizes. Cyber hackers are always looking for new vulnerabilities that make it easy to install malware, access sensitive data, and disrupt business operations. By preventing unauthorized access to your network to protect sensitive data and prevent malicious attacks, network access control systems provide an added layer of security for greater peace of mind. NAC systems can also be used to enforce security policies that ensure only authorized users can access the network. Even if a cyber hacker gets through one layer of security, they will be faced with additional security measures that make it infinitely more difficult to launch an attack.
2. Comply with regulatory requirements: Many industries have strict data protection and privacy regulatory requirements—and failure to comply can result in lofty fines and a tarnished reputation. NAC systems enforce security policies that restrict access to the network based on predefined rules, ensuring only authorized users and devices can access the network. Plus, with the ability to deliver greater visibility and control over all devices that connect to the network, NAS makes it easy for you to monitor and manage the access of devices across the network—and automatically remove a non-compliant or malicious device. And with simpler auditing and reporting capabilities, NAS also simplifies auditing and reporting to support various regulations and standards.
3. Improve performance: Offering a secure and efficient network environment, NAC solutions can help businesses optimize network performance and productivity. As network traffic increases, its performance can take a hit, disrupting operations. By reducing the number of unauthorized devices that connect to the network and ensuring critical business traffic receives priority over non-critical traffic, NAC solutions help to reduce network congestion to boost performance. And with the ability to identify and address issues with connected devices before they create a problem, NAC also improves uptime.
4. Simplify network management: NAC solutions offer a centralized approach to network security, making it easy for administrators to easily control and monitor access to the network and enforce security policies. By automating the process of identifying and authenticating users and devices, NAC eliminates the need for manual configuration and management of network devices, which minimizes the risk of human error, reduces the workload on IT teams, and improves overall network security.
5. Boost productivity: NAC solutions ensure only authorized users can access the resources they need, which reduces the risk of data breaches and other security incidents that can lead to network downtime and lost productivity. By providing visibility into all devices that connect to the network, your IT team can quickly resolve issues and enforce security policies, which allows employees to work with confidence and without interruption.

By implementing an NAC system, your IT team can ensure the network is secure, reliable, and always available, while supporting regulatory compliance, network management, and network performance.

At Zunesis, we can help you protect your network infrastructure, safeguard sensitive data, and maintain business continuity with ClearPass from Aruba, a leading provider of NAC solutions that help businesses secure their network infrastructure while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Providing robust network access control with granular role-based policies for authentication, authorization, continuous monitoring and enforcement, Aruba ClearPass gives you anywhere, anytime connectivity while supporting simplified network security operations and enforcing security policies.

 Downtime costs businesses an average of $84,650 per hour.  A natural disaster or cyber-attack can result in weeks of downtime for a business that’s not prepared, delivering a massive financial blow. Even worse, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 40% of small and mid-sized businesses never reopen after a natural disaster, and an additional 25% reopen but fail within a year. These statistics are staggering—and sadly, we’ve seen scenarios like these play out many times with our clients.

The threat of man-made and natural catastrophes is real—and in most cases, it’s something you can’t control. What you can control, however, are the safeguards you have in place to help your business recover when disaster strikes.

 

Enter Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).

DRaaS is a pay-as-you go cloud service model that delivers backup services in a managed data center to ensure access and functionality to IT infrastructure after a disaster. It gives an organization a total system backup for rapid restoration of data servers and applications in the event of system failure. By replicating and backing up all cloud data and applications, DRaaS protects data, limits downtime, and shortens Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) when a disaster happens.

 

7 Benefits of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service:

 

1. Cost savings: According to Gartner, 55% to 65% of I&O leaders say they overspend in backup and recovery by at least 30%. With DRaaS, you get the same capabilities and reliability as the more costly on-premise DR systems, but in a pay-as-you-go model whereby you only pay for what you use. Plus, with the ability to rapidly recover from a disaster, you stand to save your business hundreds of thousands of dollars—or more—from unplanned downtime or lost data.
2. Immediate recovery: The longer it takes for your business to recover following a disaster, the more money your business will lose. By backing up your data to a secondary infrastructure, DRaaS offers instantaneous failover, so your business can return to normal operations within minutes—not hours or weeks.
3. Secure data backup storage: DRaaS offers a multi-layer security approach designed to address most vulnerabilities. Employing the latest security protocols, with frequent patches, multi-factor authentication, encryption, ongoing audits, and more, DRaaS providers ensure comprehensive data security.
4. Peace of mind: With redundancy for all your critical business information systems, DRaaS eliminates the worry and pressures associated with meeting recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO), while helping you stay GDPR compliant.
5. Reduced administrative burden: Managing disaster recovery eats up a lot of time for your internal staff—and keeps them in react mode. By outsourcing your disaster recovery to a third-party provider who will manage all DR planning and maintenance activities, you free up internal staff to proactively focus on other critical IT functions, achieve greater levels of productivity, and realize greater efficiencies.
6. Specialized expertise: A DRaaS provider has advanced expertise in backup, recovery, and data security. With access to a team who knows everything there is to know about implementation, replication, failover, and more, you can unload a heavy and complex burden while letting the experts do what they do best.
7. Scale on demand: Because you only pay for what you use, not only do you avoid overprovisioning for an in-house solution, but you also get the flexibility to scale up or down as needed. If your needs grow, you can quickly, easily, and efficiently upgrade your service

At Zunesis, we can help you achieve modern data protection with HPE GreenLake for data protection. Ask us about how your company can install a free trial of HPE Greenlake backup and recovery.

For more information about HPE’s industry-leading backup, recovery, and ransomware protection capabilities, contact us today.

According to IDC research, businesses are prioritizing resiliency and agility as foundational elements of their IT strategy. They want more visibility, cross-platform control, better data management, and protection from the edge to the core. While consumption-based models are playing an increasingly important role in powering those goals to accelerate digital transformation, many business leaders are hesitant when it comes to Network-as-a-Service (NaaS). Some still think of as-a-service in terms of software, compute, and storage. However, as budgets grow tighter amid an inflationary economic environment, organizations need a better way to predict the ebbs and flows of the network, with flexibility to adapt as business needs change. That’s where NaaS comes into play.

Among the newest as-a-service approaches, NaaS combines­ hardware, software, services, and support in a pay-as-you-go model that delivers network services on a subscription basis. Allowing users to consume network infrastructure through flexible OpEx subscriptions, NaaS helps businesses shift their focus from managing their architecture to driving business outcomes.

 

If you haven’t transitioned to Network-as-a-Service yet, here are five reasons why you should:

 

1. Cost savings: Network-as-a-Service allows you to acquire the network you need, when you need it, to avoid overprovisioning—in a pay-as-you-go OpEx model. Because you’re not locked into expensive infrastructure and rigid contracts, Naas allows you to more predictably manage costs and align budgets to business priorities. Additionally, with insights into all aspects of usage, including power, capacity, bandwidth speeds, and service levels, you can make more profitable financial decisions about workloads and upcoming projects.
2. Security: As the prevalence of data breeches and ransomware continues to soar, enhancing network security is crucial. With proactive network monitoring, preventative maintenance, and real-time insights into network performance, the NaaS model offers enhanced network infrastructure protection with enterprise-grade security. With that, any nefarious activity can be immediately identified—and patches can be applied to address the breech before it becomes a problem.
3. Performance and Productivity: Network-as-a-Service ensures your network operates efficiently by assessing traffic volume and making necessary adjustments. A better performing network means less downtime and greater staff productivity. Additionally, by outsourcing the full lifecycle of your enterprise network deployment, day-to-day operational management, upgrades, monitoring and troubleshooting activities to a NaaS partner, you free up your internal IT resources to focus on business-enabling tasks that add measurable value.
4. Keep up with the pace of business: NaaS provides the financial flexibility to shorten planning cycle times and the agility to keep pace with changing conditions. By ensuring your network technology is refreshed as needed to support new workloads and changing requirements, a NaaS model makes it easy to scale your network as needs change.
5. Environmental impact – NaaS offers a more sustainable way to consume network technology. With the ability to rent sustainable networks from a NaaS provider on a subscription basis, you don’t have to worry about where and how to dispose of old equipment. Plus, NaaS providers are committed to sustainable ‘reuse and retirement’ practices—and also well versed at configuring networks that are purpose-built to optimize energy consumption. By turning to a NaaS solution, you are making an environmentally sound decision that reduces your carbon footprint.

As market conditions continue to change at a rapid clip, your business needs to be one step ahead of your competition. With NaaS solutions from Aruba, Zunesis can help you move from reactive network management to a proactive approach that uses the network to deliver innovation and power profound business outcomes.

For more information about how you can accelerate business outcomes with Aruba’s subscription-based network consumption model, contact us here.