Assured Data Protection (Assured), a prominent IT managed services provider (MSP) for cloud data protection solutions, is releasing Innovation Team—a strategic initiative aimed at expanding the company’s market-leading disaster recovery (DR), backup, and cyber resiliency services with the addition of new technologies.
Led by Tony Giannini, a seasoned executive from the IT service sector who recently joined Assured, the Innovation Team will focus on identifying and implementing technologies that bring new value to customers beyond Assured’s current Rubrik-based offering, according to the company.
The team’s first innovation initiative, which is already underway, is a partnership with hybrid-cloud computing company Nutanix to deliver a first-of-its-kind backup and DR solution to customers.
Nutanix Disaster Recovery as-a-Service, delivered by Assured, requires no investment in facilities or hardware and operationalizes Nutanix disaster recovery solutions, providing protection to customers in over 70 countries worldwide.
By combining Nutanix replication with traditional data protection offerings, customers can prioritize their workloads, matching recovery speed to the most critical applications while leveraging lower-cost solutions for those workloads that can support longer recovery time and point capabilities, according to the vendors.
The two companies will now explore ways to deepen and expand the partnership, led by Assured’s Innovation Team.
“The formation of our Innovation Team is an important strategic initiative for Assured. We’ve built a strong business taking Rubrik’s market-leading disaster recovery and immutable backup technology to market through our MSP model,” said Stacy Hayes, EVP of Americas, Assured Data Protection. “As we grow and expand globally, now is the time to build on our success by adding additional technologies that will complement our data protection services, bringing new value to our customers. We’re thrilled to have Tony Giannini onboard to lead this initiative, supported by Chris Deacon and Nik Grove. The Innovation Team will greatly contribute to our rapid growth.”
While the United States and the United Kingdom remain Assured’s largest and most established markets, the company continues to scale its presence across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa.
According to Assured, this growth reflects rising global demand for consumption-based IT services and Assured’s managed offerings, which deliver added value by allowing organizations to offload the critical, but non-mission supportive, function of data protection and cyber resiliency/disaster recovery as a service.
For more information about this news, visit https://assured-dp.com/.