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Security concerns push Asian organisations to adopt managed and hybrid IT services

January 12, 2017

Managed and hybrid IT services, a mix of in-house and outsourced, are terms that have been doing the rounds in enterprise IT circles, but until now there hasn’t been much data to show how and why organisations in Asia Pacific have been adopting them.

A study by global IT services company CenturyLink shows that security concerns are the main reason why organisations in the region are going for managed or hybrid IT services. According to the report, 84% of organisations cite security as the key driver for considering managed service providers. Other leading factors include compliance and regulation (67%) and cost reductions (62%).

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