Backup-as-a-Service Offering by Datalink and Insight Enterprises

Insight Enterprises, Inc. announced a Backup-as-a-Service (Baas) offering featuring monthly, consumption-based pricing, and the ability to leverage on-demand, public cloud IT resources to support usage spikes.

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Industries of all types experience IT demand spikes. Examples include retailers during the holidays and cyclical shopping seasons, media and telco providers, and manufacturers when developing and manufacturing new products.

This offering from the company’s ‘Cloud and Data Center Transformation division’, Datalink, also supports a range of on- and off-site enterprise workloads. Enterprise workload backup requirements are often not fully addressed by public cloud providers or conventional managed backup services.

Company’s data protection services portfolio helps clients achieve a 10-25% reduction in backup-related operational costs. In addition, the company’s cloud and data center transformation services help reduce the tension IT leaders face when simultaneously running and innovating the business with day-to-day backup administration and monitoring.

“Our new Baas offering allows backup strategies to be tailored precisely to the needs of the enterprise with flexible per-terabyte pricing that eliminates the need to pay for fixed capacity that may not be used. Our clients have been asking for this model to help them meet their organizational needs, so they can focus on supporting business outcomes. With the managed backup lineup, we can now help our clients manage for today and transform for the future,” said Shawn O’Grady, SVP and GM, Datalink, Insight division.

Benefits of Insight Baas include:

Variable capacity with a usage-based, 100% Opex pricing model, eliminating upfront capital investment as well as amortized monthly costs for hardware infrastructure or software licenses
Burstable bandwidth to address seasonal variations, merger and acquisition needs, and other scenarios where backup volumes exceed expected thresholds
Coverage of all enterprise workloads in private, public and hybrid clouds, including endpoints, applications, databases, files, web resources, virtual and physical servers, Unix and Linux systems – whether located at the client site, Insight’s data center, co-location facility and/or public cloud
Custom design and architecture of the backup solution to meet enterprise data retention requirements for different workloads, each organization’s RPOs and RTOs, and other enterprise-specific policies
Compliance management and reporting, including the ability to execute audit restores in order to fulfill specific audit requirements

Clients also benefit from Datalink OneCall customer support, which provides a single support number to resolve trouble incidents with technologies from multiple vendors.

“IT organizations today need comprehensive backup solutions to support their diverse enterprise workloads, on-premises platforms, and compliance requirements. At the same time, they are under intense pressure to minimize costs with the pay-as-you-go pricing available from public cloud providers. However, when it comes enterprise workloads, public cloud backup programs often provide limited technology coverage and regulatory support capabilities,” said O’Grady.

Baas is an addition to a portfolio of the company’s data center operational services that help clients maximize operational efficiency by outsourcing administration of networks, servers, storage, virtualization, voice, both private and public cloud environments and other assets.

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Insight Enterprises Acquires Datalink
Equity purchase price of $258 million and enterprise value of $196 million
2016.11.09 | Press Release