Your business lives and breathes data. From your client profiles to your tax records, you rely on a wide range of information assets being readily accessible and secure from breach to create and deliver value.

The evolving threat landscape demands you proactively prepare the infrastructure and expertise necessary to avoid damage to your bottom line and liability for your clients. From human mistake to a targeted attack, the number of risks your data face assigns a complexity and cost to sound security strategy many SMBs simply lack the resources or know-how for.

Outsourcing can ease the complexity, confusion, and costs you might face scaling the summit alone.

What Are Managed Data Services?

Small or large, your organization has clients to support and systems, responsibilities, and processes to support them with. Your data is key to deliver that promise.

While data center management plays a primary role in protecting your business from breach or disaster, the autonomy of modern security and storage functions has turned this investment into an opportunity to cut costs with the right allocation of resources.

Managed data centers can be partially or totally outsourced, depending on your organization’s desired administrative control. The provider will primarily install and patch system-level software, maintain network equipment and backup functions, and ensure infrastructure redundancy. Managed data includes a variety of functions, but there are some specific technologies taking competing businesses the extra mile toward total technology tenacity.

Managed Data Services

SD-WAN

SD-WAN or Software-Defined Wide Area Networks are a software-driven evolution of the traditional Wide Area Network. You can securely and intelligently direct your traffic based on internal security policies from a central point in the network. SD-WAN solutions are deployed as an overlay to your existing configuration for easier integration and adoption. 

The cloud advantage over the traditional WAN leverages local internet offloading to prioritize business-critical traffic and support high bandwidth applications. Skipping the data center and bringing local internet breakouts to the branch helps maximize app performance without exposing your organization to threats.

SD-WAN delivers a higher quality user experience and centralized network management and helps your business bear the full fruit of that bandwidth you pay for.

Data Backup

Data backup solutions ensure your organization’s data is secure and accessible on-premise or off-site in the event of corruption or loss. Cloud-based remote storage and backup off-site are vital for continuity in the event an entire facility is compromised. 

Additional solutions like failback and failover automatically relocate data when the primary location is affected. The more time passes between backups or without a proactive solution prepared, the greater risk your business runs suffering.

Fiber

Fiber-optic internet is a broadband connection that leverages reflective glass cables to transmit data significantly faster and with better reciprocation than can be accomplished with electricity and copper or coaxial cables. 

An upgrade in both speed and reliability, fiber enables several users to connect devices at once and streamlines and enables boosted telecommute and other high bandwidth-dependent capabilities.

Managed Private Networks

The growing work-from-anywhere model has charged competing businesses with expanding secure networking capability to support more clients and actively adapt to the changing threat vectors, all without breaking the bank. 

As a result, your network might resemble a complex patchwork of technologies integrated over time, occupying your IT staff with maintaining that network rather than leading key strategic initiatives.

Managed Private Networking offers the privacy and scalability ideal to support long-term network growth and mission-critical applications. A cloud-based portal gives you visibility into your network and centralizes your connectivity and network management for easier internal or outsourced control of the solution. Access your remote assets faster, safer, and simpler, and potentially reduce expenses by only paying for what you need in a modular networking solution.

Direct Data Connections

Everything is moving to the data center, so bring the data center to your office. A direct data link facilitates communication between two organizations via a network or dedicated line. 

This shift enables access to your collocation cabinets and easier deployment and management of your applications within your LAN.

Optimized VPN

Your remote users need fast access to your private network, and the growing demand for speed, scalability, and resiliency introduces data security challenges a complacent VPN can’t be trusted with. 

Users spread across the country? Our partnerships with presences locally and globally bring you the closest possible VPN connections so you can quickly configure and deploy services when and where you need them, with high performance and low latency. Our private network solution is totally redundant to keep you online and your services running 24/7/365.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Cloud-enabled organizations are connecting their applications, data, users, and their devices from beyond the reach of their on-premises security stack. This “access pattern inversion” creates both networking and security challenges. SASE is the stone designed to take out both birds. 

Point solutions, while adequate, can become complex to own and manage, slowing your internal IT. Secure Access Service Edge blends networking and security functions into a unified, simple, and secure network architecture delivered as a cloud service. 

The SASE framework answers the inversion by delivering controls as close to your users as possible (at the edge) to maximize reliability and performance without exposing your sites, apps, or other corporate resources to threat.

Managed Data Center Services

Managed Data Center Services transfer traditional data center responsibilities to a provider, who primarily installs and updates system-level software, manages network hardware and backup functions, and ensures infrastructure redundancy to simplify networking, web hosting, data backup, recovery, and more for your organization.

While data center management is key in minimizing the risk of data breach or disaster, the autonomy of modern security and storage functions has turned this investment into an opportunity to cut costs with the right allocation of resources.

Data center management can be partly or entirely outsourced, depending on your organization’s desired level of administrative control.