Three ongoing trends are coming together today to create a significant opportunity for MSPs:
- Enterprises are standardizing on hybrid cloud architectures for their IT operations in the post-pandemic landscape.
- Data protection, often a behind-the-scenes activity, is under increasing levels of scrutiny given the rise in ransomware attacks and the market is growing fast.
- Enterprises are increasingly outsourcing data protection to cope with a growing application development agenda and work-from-home IT needs and a loss of technical talent within organizations, with Managed Services Providers (MSPs) coming to the rescue. This need is even more acute in specialized technology areas such as IBM and Power Systems, tape systems, and mainframe, but the opportunity in open systems has grown steadily over the past two years.