INTERVIEW/ VERITAS
VERITAS EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS BENEFITS OF SAAS ADOPTION SECURITY MIDDLE EAST SPOKE TO ARTHUR DELL, TECHNOLOGY LEADER AT VERITAS TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE BARRIERS FACING ENTERPRISES OVER CLOUD DATA PROTECTION, WHY SAAS HAS EMERGED AS THE PREFERRED MODEL OF ADOPTION – AND HOW ITS RECENT ACQUISITION OF HUBSTOR WILL ENHANCE ITS SECURITY OFFERING TO ITS CUSTOMERS.
W Arthur Dell
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SEPTEMBER 2021
hat are some of the biggest barriers to cloud data protection faced by enterprises today? One big barrier is the widespread but mistaken belief that the cloud service providers are responsible for backing up the data. In fact, customers are responsible for protecting their own SaaS data, but they often don’t realise this. Performance and scalability can be a challenge, given the volume of data that modern businesses generate. Especially when initially setting up a backup, companies can have many PBs of data to capture, and some systems are unable to accomplish this within an acceptable timeframe. Data sovereignty is a challenge for many organisations, as different countries have different laws about how and where data can be stored, which ultimately requires multiple distributes global data stores.
Why is enterprise adoption of SaaS becoming so popular? If you were to pose this question to the decision-makers at different organisations, you’d likely receive different answers, but at the core, their reasons for choosing SaaS over on-premises comes down to the following: Lower cost—SaaS costs for the organisation will be less than the total of individual applications for each user. Ease of deployment—There’s no actual software deployment needed. All users need is a web browser or a client they can download and install. Simpler purchasing process—Rather than having to count users to ensure the purchase of enough license keys, SaaS has a far simpler subscription pricing model. Simple support for remote users— From the SaaS platform’s point of view, all users are remote, including those working on-premises, allowing all of them
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