Prospects for managed service providers (MSPs) this year appear to be rising across a wide range of potential customers according to a new survey.
A survey of 1,200 SMB and midmarket business leaders conducted by cloud data recovery specialist Infrascale suggests that the need for greater security is pushing organisations toward MSPs regardless of some recent high-profile breaches involving managed services.
Business executives in the education (44 percent), healthcare (51 percent), and manufacturing (53 percent) sectors cited the need for increased security as their top reason for selecting an MSP. Security and reduced costs (46 percent) tied as the top reason among e-commerce retailers, while finance industry executives cited reduced costs (57 percent) as their top reason.
Infrascale CEO Russell Reeder said that rising interest in managed services is being driven by the rise of ransomware. Organisations are starting to realise the best way to combat ransomware is to have a pristine version of their data readily available in the cloud, and the simplest way for smaller organisations to accomplish that goal is to rely on an MSP.
“It’s astounding that anybody pays ransomware when you think about it”, said Reeder.
