The Rise of Managed Service Providers in Data Migration
Today, many enterprises delegate certain activities to external companies, creating a temporary augmentation of their internal teams. This model allows organizations to quickly acquire new skills without the additional burden of hiring and building a team in-house.
Over the last decade, these external companies, known as managed service providers (MSPs), have seen significant growth. Typically, they handle tasks as a cohesive team on a project basis.
A major aspect of the managed service provider business relates to data migrations. This ongoing and lucrative market has become a natural part of every IT organization, as data is constantly in motion.
However, a significant challenge faced by managed service providers is their lack of insights into the data being migrated. To handle projects efficiently, they need to obtain this information quickly. Since the majority of migrated data consists of unstructured data—such as files and objects—this lack of awareness during data migrations poses a critical problem.
For many years, there has been a demand for tools that provide insights into unstructured data. While many companies have attempted to address this issue with conventional methods, these typically rely on data owners assigning tags to the data, which can guide data storage owners on proper management. However, this approach has several weaknesses, starting with the potential for human error or negligence, which can skew data management. Additionally, this method requires extra resources from data owners and data storage administrators.
The emergence of AI presents new opportunities to tackle this challenge at its root by analyzing data and providing information with minimal team involvement. A specifically trained LLM model could assist the migration teams of managed service providers in obtaining information about unstructured data quickly, thus expediting business processes and increasing revenue for MSPs.
At Smartstorify, we are developing the LLM model to enhance the resources of managed service providers and unlock new opportunities and revenue streams.
Stay tuned for updates!