Quantum, in an interaction with Ambika Prakash of CIOL speaks about how Quantum has been supportive of SMBs in storing and managing the data.

Excerpts from an interview:

CIOL: Indian SMBs are going in for deploying the latest, easy-to-use IT solutions to accelerate their businesses. How has technology been helpful for this segment?

Sunny John: With new solutions supporting consolidated network storage and enabling cost effective replication by assuring long-term data archiving, it is now easier than ever before for IT managers to manage and optimize their storage requirements.

Most innovations in the IT industry are complex and expensive, and are initially targeted at large enterprises. They filter down to small and medium enterprises (SMBs) as simplified and cost-effective packages later on.

Storage or backup technology is no exception to this rule. Big-ticket concepts such as networked storage, tiered storage, fully automated and fully integrated backup, restore and archive functions are now available to the SMBs and being deployed rapidly in India.

These technologies help the companies to focus their resources on core competencies, spend less time and money on managing their backup, recovery and archive, while improving their ability to recover their business from disasters.

CIOL: What drives the SMB market to deploy Quantum products? How does the Quantum look at this market in terms of IT adoption?

SJ: With the introduction of cost-effective solutions like backup, recovery and archive (BURA) solutions, it has become easy for SMBs to afford such solutions.

BURA, an important part of every business and regardless of size, has brought in a considerable change in the SMB market.

Quantum being the largest independent backup, recovery and archive vendor in the world, is committed to provide the best backup, recovery and archive solutions to all market segments worldwide including the SMB market.

A majority of SMBs in India require efficient BURA solutions without compromising on the cost. Quantum has provided excellent solutions to many satisfied customers in this market, based on feature set, reliability and cost.

Observing the rapid growth of Indian SMB market in the APAC region, Quantum continues to cater to growing needs of it.

CIOL: According to you, which verticals (manufacturing, retail, BFSI, retail, services, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals) have emerged strong among the SMBs in adopting IT?

SJ: Public and private companies, and virtually, the data intensive industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and government, face a tremendous burden to comply with a variety of new compliance regulations.

In terms of the BURA sector in the IT landscape, it cuts across all verticals and has seen a strong growth.