Posted on Fri, Oct 24, 2008
I was happy to learn that of the 12 technologies that CRN magazine (September 15, 2008) reported to be most needed by midsized businesses, RenovoData addresses 5 of them. They are: 1) Virtualization; 2) Data Loss Prevention; 3) Data Deduplication; 4) Software-as-a-Service and 5) Mobile Security.
According to CRN, typical midmarket CIOs are facing the same struggles that their counterparts are at large enterprises but they're having to deal with more limited budgets. Not a surprise given the current state of the economy. In fact, I think the economic downturn will actually accelerate the trend for midsized companies to adopt hosted alternatives as credit markets remain tight through 2009. As CIOs are forced to do more with less, in the face of more dispersed workforces and craftier threats, the prospect of secure hosted offsite data backup and DR is becoming a more viable alternative for them.
In case you are wondering what the other 7 technologies are, they are: Blade servers; Unified Communication; Videoconferencing; Network Management; Perimeter Security; Data Center Cooling and Business Applications.