Star Storage – the top cloud services provider in Romania – anticipates 5 major trends of cloud market in 2015
Star Storage, Romanian top provider for storage, archiving and information management solutions, IT Outsourcing and Cloud services, announces the five major trends expected to cloud market in Romania in 2015.
Star Storage meets the needs of organizations, whether public or private, to expand and manage the IT platform, offering them a comprehensive portfolio of flexible cloud services that provide the scalability, security and performance of a dedicated IT infrastructure.
“In 2015, it will be interesting to follow the dynamics of the cloud market in Romania. From now on, we expect to receive from our customers more specific requirements regarding cloud projects implementation. The profile of cloud services user has evolved considerably in the last year, now the user is far more informed about what Cloud delivery model means and what it offers and how it responds to his needs.
We are ready to respond with solutions and services that are simple to use from day one and ensure to customer operational efficiency improvement and implicitly increase the profitability, as well as the data availability and protection within the company.
For 2015, we intend to strengthen our position as a preferred provider for Cloud services on the market in Romania and to diversify our portfolio so as to better respond to the customer’s needs and requirements. We are prepared to exceed their expectations regarding the quality and performance of the services we offer. We are specialized, we have focus, and we have a TIER 3 Data Center in Romania that is certified both for support and IT systems operation services and for documents electronic archiving services, which gives us a competitive advantage in the market.” said Catalin Paunescu, Star Storage CEO.
The 5 major trends that we anticipate for the cloud market in 2015 are:
- The adoption rate of cloud computing services will increase by approximately 20%
Over time, and particularly in 2014 the cloud services adoption has experienced an upward trend and it is expected that also this year to register the same trend, especially on lower budgets dedicated to IT equipment procurement. Clearly, the service delivery model from the cloud is becoming more widely known, the physical equipment acquisition lose significant ground in front of it, and customers go out of information phase in the use phase.
- The decision of choosing the cloud service provider will be based on objective factors, such as:
– Greatly reduced IT budgets
– Data security of company
– Data availability
– Simplicity in use and freedom of choice/change the provider
If until now, users were not receptive to the cloud computing concept and knew too little information about the benefits they could achieve by using cloud services, now the situation has changed in a positive sense.
The education level has increased significantly, which caused a major change among the factors that contribute to the final decision in choosing the cloud service provider by customers. Now users focus on the quality and the technical parameters of services they are going to purchase.
- Services such as Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) are becoming increasingly popular and adopted among users
The Software as a Service (SaaS) services benefits such as scalability and standardization of them, begin to be chosen increasingly more by the companies. The growing adoption by customers of the services such as Platform as a Service (PaaS) is due to the development of SaaS type services. To develop efficient software it is required a performance virtualized platform, available in the cloud model that provide users quick resources they need to achieve their business goals.
- The software applications must be developed so that it can be deployed in the cloud, easy and fast
At international level, and increasingly more internally, it is observed the tendency of companies to move their entire workflow in the cloud, which is why applications must be designed in accordance with this technology. Moreover, the development of high-end performance applications involves a wide variety of resources that can be used effectively only by adopting the cloud model.
- The hybrid Cloud will be the service model chosen by the enterprise companies
The hybrid cloud is a combination between the public and private, thus providing the benefits of both models into a single service, using direct in the cloud both the physical applications and infrastructure. This branch has developed extensively and will progress even further, especially in the business enterprise as a result of the latest innovations in the field and also as the fact that it provides both an external cloud platform, as well as an internal one, which may be amended at any time in accordance with the individual business requirements.
“In 2015, we plan to continue to increase our market share in the cloud services segment by expanding our offered portfolio with new services to accommodate the requirements of our customers. The trend of cloud technology adoption in the IT environment has accentuated and therefore in the StarVault Cloud services portfolio were added services covering productivity requirements, business objectives closer than technology. We note a growing interest for the desktop virtualization services, services based on Microsoft technology, but delivered from the Star Storage cloud under the private cloud. Also, the unified services of software platforms management and the sharing and collaboration are replacing the traditional model based on the hardware / software purchase.” said Catalin Necula, Star Storage Cloud Solution Sales Manager.
The complete StarVault Cloud services portfolio by Star Storage provides any end user a complete IT infrastructure as an alternative to the traditional model of purchasing IT platform. These include both services for dedicated servers, virtual servers, storage, and data protection, as well as the IT platforms and software solutions offered direct from our own TIER level 3 Data Center.
About Star Storage
STAR STORAGE, the Romanian information technology services company serving a large number of private and public clients, it delivers storage, protection, archiving and information management solutions being positioned as the Romanian industry leader.
Star Storage has more than 14 years of experience on the Romanian market and in addition to its national presence, the Company has expanded its presence on the international level through strategic alliances with reputable international players. Star Storage offer to clients a complete portfolio of solutions and services fulfilling the entire enterprise information lifecycle and playing a key role in the transformation process of organizations’ IT infrastructure into cloud-based architectures with improved control over the content. In addition to this portfolio, several outsourcing services – focused on content acquisition, enrichment, protection, recovery and content output – are provided to banks, non-banking financial institutions, public administrations, telecommunication operators and industry and utility companies.