How many sites do your clients’ networks link? For many, it’s as many as three or four or more. And too often the multiple locations where their data resides are subject to critical network dependencies easily perturbed in such deeply interconnected environments.
This likely explains why there was a 68% jump between 2017 and 2018 in the rate that network errors triggered unplanned downtime.
Until recently, the chief culprit in unplanned network downtime was power failure. These days, however, network errors and IT system problems play the main villains — and network errors were identified as the primary cause for 32% of outages in 2018.
That number becomes even more alarming when you consider that just a year earlier network errors accounted for only 19% of outages.
So why was there a 68% jump between 2017 and 2018 in the rate that network errors triggered unplanned downtime?
As you’ve handed off more and more data and applications to the cloud, you may think you’re now beyond losing any of your cloud-resident data and apps — because, after all, the cloud vendor’s multiple, diversely located data centers obviate that, right?
I urge you to think again.
It’s not that you’re necessarily entirely wrong. It’s that you may be only half right — and the half that is not right could put your business in peril.
By 2025, 80% of enterprises will give up their on-premises data centers and move workloads to colocation and/or cloud and managed services.
As your clients’ business requirements drive how they choose which workloads to place where, they face decisions centered around how much control they need over their servers and their data. Odds are that’s when you’ll hear from them.
By 2025, 80% of enterprises will give up their on-premises data centers and move workloads to co-location and/or cloud and managed services.
Your clients’ increasingly cloud-centric IT environments are becoming an ever more complex hybrid that needs to be managed in entirely new ways. And their best option is a trusted managed service provider with deep cloud experience.
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Any of these five complaints signal a client’s need for cloud help:
