The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned a uniquely challenging environment that is all at once overwhelming, pervasive and seemingly unrelenting. Businesses in every industry, economy, and geography are faced with an existential threat, and with each passing day, more of them are shutting shops. Gartner estimates that only 12% of the businesses are prepared to deal…

Tags:  Business Continuity, Corporate VPN, Digital Transformation, Greenlake, HPE, Hybrid cloud, Hyperconverge, Managed Services, Microsoft, Office 365, remote workforce, VDI, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VPN, 

How much does 1 hour of downtime cost to businesses on average? According to a 2020 study, an average company loses over $100,000 on account of a single hour of downtime. What’s even more startling is that roughly 33% of the surveyed organizations report potential losses of $1 to $5 million in the event of…

Tags:  availability, backup, Business Continuity, Digital Transformation, downtime cost, Endpoint Security, hardware storage, Hybrid cloud, private cloud, public cloud, Remote Backups, SMB, veeam, Veeam Availability Suite, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, VMs, 

In the mid of March, this year, the demand for VPN connections from businesses skyrocketed by a 50% in the US. The period, not coincidentally, witnessed the deluge of the workforce from the office setup to a work-from-home setup. Businesses woke up to the reality of a remote workforce necessitated by the workforce movement restrictions…

Tags:  Anti-Virus Management, Backup services, Business Continuity, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Firewall Monitoring, Managed Services for SMBs, Network Monitoring, Network Operations, Office 365, Performance Monitoring, Proactive Monitoring, Ransomware, remote workforce, SMBs, Startups, 

 The tsunami impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has left the global economy paralyzed in several ways. As the various stages of lockdown implemented by the global governments roll back, businesses continue to grapple with the growing fears, increasing disruptions, and the new reality of the pandemic. Physical businesses are turning to enhanced safety and protection…

Tags:  AWS, Cloud Transformation, Deep Security, Digital Transformation, Hybrid cloud, Multi cloud, Productivity, VMware, VMware Cloud on AWS, 

These two facts clearly indicate that there is a massive disconnect between business objectives and the state of affairs within most organizations. Despite the overwhelming evidence that data can be a game-changing source of competitive advantage for businesses, it does not get the priority it deserves. In fact, a large number of businesses agree that…

Tags:  AsiaPac Managed Services, Data Availability, Data Driven Solutions, Digital Transformation, Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud Infrastructure, HCI, Hitachi Content Intelligence, Hitachi Vantara, Intelligent Data Operations, intelligent transformation, Object Storage, Operational Efficiency, Unified Compute Platform, Virtual Storage Platform, 

With Microsoft Office 365 being such a typical business application, one common question that is asked by many customers is: “Do we even need to back up our Office 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business data?  The short answer is: Yes! Businesses using Office 365 need to backup their data to ensure…

Tags:  AsiaPac Managed Services, automation, backup, Business Continuity, data protection, Data Retention, Digital Transformation, Managed Service, Microsoft, microsoft azure hybrid cloud, microsoft azure stack, Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, SMB, 

The statistics are in. A staggering 72% of the corporations are failing at digital transformation. The big rush towards digital transformation was never going to be a smooth one. There was bound to be some level of course-correction for all industries, which meant that inevitably some businesses were expected to fall flat on their faces….

Tags:  Data Availability, Data Driven Solutions, DataOps, Digital Transformation, Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud Infrastructure, HCP, Hitachi Content Platform, Hitachi Vantara, Intelligent Data Operations, intelligent transformation, Object Storage, Operational Efficiency, Unified Compute Platform, Virtual Storage Platform, 

  In May 2020, AsiaPac was proud to be awarded the first and only Elite Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud Infrastructure and Resell Partner for Hitachi Vantara products, solutions and services in Singapore. Prior to this award, AsiaPac was also named as Top Growth Partner FY19 at the Hitachi Vantara ASEAN CIO & Partner Leaders Forum and Best Hitachi…

Tags:  Data Availability, Data Driven Solutions, DataOps, Digital Transformation, Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud Infrastructure, Hitachi Content Platform, Hitachi Vantara, Intelligent Data Operations, intelligent transformation, Object Storage, Unified Compute Platform, Virtual Storage Platform, 

In a recent study on the impact of technology disruption on businesses, 30.7% of the responding enterprises reported that it had a negative impact on them. Digital technology is firmly driving innovation and injecting disruption into every industry, country, and economy. Spurred by these challenges, organizations are looking to their own IT departments for solutions….

Tags:  Digital Transformation, Managed Service, 

According to a survey by The Alternative Board, entrepreneurs, on average, spend 68.1% of their time managing routine, mundane, and repetitive tasks. They spend only 31.9% of their time on achieving their business goals. These numbers get worse as we move down the organizational hierarchy, and their impact, even more profound. Repetitive, tedious admin tasks,…

Tags:  Automate, Automation Anywhere, Digital Transformation, DX, Robotic Process Automation, RPA, Tasks Automation,