A growing number of firms in Scotland are looking to adopt multiple cloud services in order to meet their varied business requirements and provide a more efficient solution for their organisation.
This is according to new research from Information Services Group (ISG), which noted that large enterprises that have until now relied on traditional capital expenditure models for their IT and telephony solutions are particularly keen to embrace multicloud alternatives, partnering with several public cloud providers.
ISG said this approach provides greater flexibility, cuts costs and allows firms to improve their time to market.
Its report also noted that mutlicloud options are attractive because many businesses have different workload requirements for performance. Because of this, they want to pick and choose services that provide the best fit for each part of the business, rather than being locked into a single provider that may not be ideal for certain needs.
For example, the report highlighted the case of a financial services organisation that uses one cloud provider for its data warehousing and communications platform, another provider for application testing and development, and a third to run enterprise cloud software in specific locations.
Barry Matthews, partner and head of ISG in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Nordics, said: "This new, complex, multi-cloud, multi-skilled approach is now the standard in business and a key trend driving enterprise organisations."
While large businesses lead the way, multi-cloud tools are also popular among medium-sized firms. However, ISG noted that these firms often lack the resources and expertise needed to operate multicloud and hybrid cloud environments, and will therefore increasingly turn to managed service providers to help them make a success of the technology.
These organisations will therefore have an essential role to play in helping businesses understand the complex cloud services market identify which of the thousands of new cloud offerings that become available every year will be the best fit.
Arrow specialises in telephony, data, IT and energy solutions for businesses. It offers a diverse product range including hosted telephony and mobiles through to mobile device management, telephone systems, IT services, voice and data connectivity. The addition of business energy, including gas, electricity and water services, to the portfolio makes Arrow one of very few companies in the UK able to provide a full energy, telecoms and IT consultancy and service proposition.
Arrow has ten offices throughout the UK including one in Aberdeen and one in Glasgow, annual sales of over £49m and 220 staff supporting a diverse range of businesses from entrepreneurs to national, multi-site organisations.
Arrow identified the potential of the Scottish telecoms market a number of years ago with its purchase of Orca Telecom in 2015, Siebert Telecom in 2017 and Abica in 2018. In addition to the acquisitions, Arrow has also recently augmented its Aberdeen team and moved into larger offices in the West End of the city.
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