The
challenges
brought
on
by
the
COVID-19
pandemic
at
the
beginning
of
the
decade
saw
managed
service
providers
(MSPs)
become
a
sought-after
resource
for
organisations
wanting
to
improve
their
offerings.
The
catalyst
for
this
shift
was
security,
which
was
a
heightened
concern
as
hybrid
working
became
the
new
normal.
Research
conducted
in
2020
found
MSPs
had
become
the
biggest
earners,
with
69%
of
respondents
recognising
this
sector
as
their
most
significant
opportunity
for
boosting
sales
going
forward.
This
marked
a
dramatic
15%
increase
from
2019
respondents
and
the
sector
has
only
grown
since.
Aiven
is
the
leader
in
managed
services
for
open
source
technologies,
using
leading
open
source
technologies
to
help
organisations
fuel
the
continuous
innovation
needed
to
create
outstanding,
data-intensive
applications.
Essentially,
it
enables
businesses
to
balance
infrastructure
by
focusing
on
the
problems
they
are
trying
to
solve
for
their
customers
rather
than
the
problems
their
engineers
have.
Open
source
software
can
be
downloaded
and
used
by
anyone,
but
there
is
an
operational
burden
that
is
often
overlooked
when
using
these
technologies
in
a
production
scenario.
Running
multi-node
highly
available
data
services
can
get
fairly
tricky.
Seeing
as
Aiven’s
customers
are
the
digital
disruptors,
having
a
partner
like
this
to
shoulder
that
load
is
often
helpful.
With
Aiven,
companies
could
grow
from
prototyping
to
scaling
globally
much
faster.
The
company
provides
provisioning,
operation
and
maintenance
of
cloud
data
infrastructure,
allowing
its
customers
to
concentrate
on
what
they
do
best
–
product
development.
Aiven
is
headquartered
in
Helsinki
with
offices
in
nine
major
cities
and
distributed
team
members
in
multiple
remote
locations
around
the
world.
Asia
Pacific
is
a
huge
area
of
growth
for
the
organisation,
where
it
leads
the
booming
market
for
managed
cloud
data
solutions.
Founded
in
2016,
the
company
has
been
operating
in
APAC
since
2021,
with
its
regional
hub
in
Singapore
and
market
reach
expanding
across
five
countries,
including
Australia
and
New
Zealand.
Aiven
is
especially
known
for
its
managed
services
in
the
open
source
database,
PostgreSQL,
and
open
source
event
streaming
platform,
Apache
Kafka,
which
allow
organisations
to
increase
their
database
performance
and
improve
workload
productivity
and
scalability.
The
company
has
made
a
number
of
exciting
announcements
recently
that
represent
it
“walking
the
talk”
on
its
commitment
to
its
own
philosophy.
“Aiven’s
mission
is
to
make
developers’
lives
better,
by
helping
them
build
more
sophisticated
applications
accessible
to
all,”
says
Troy
Sellers,
APAC
Solutions
Architect
Lead,
Aiven.
“When
starting
Aiven,
our
goal
was
to
build
a
company
that
we
wanted
to
work
for.
We
wanted
to
make
the
open
source
technologies
we
love
easier
to
adopt.
“Our
ability
to
give
developers
and
organisations
the
tools
and
technologies
they
need
to
set
up,
maintain,
monitor,
and
secure
scalable
open
source
data
infrastructure,
empowers
them
to
grow
from
prototyping
to
achieving
worldwide
scale
at
greater
efficiencies.”
Aiven
recently
entered
the
cloud
data
warehousing
market
with
Aiven
for
ClickHouse.
Using
Clickhouse,
customers
now
have
access
to
an
open
source
columnar
database
with
high-performance
analytics
for
insights
that
drive
key
business
decisions.
ClickHouse
is
fully
open
source
and
designed
to
process
hundreds
of
millions
of
rows
and
tens
of
gigabytes
of
data
per
server
per
second
and
supports
query
performance.
Additionally,
Aiven
recently
made
its
complete,
open
source
streaming
ecosystem
of
technologies
available
for
Apache
Kafka,
making
it
the
one
truly
open
source
Apache
Kafka
offering
on
the
market.
It
comprises
a
robust
and
fully
open
source
real-time
data
ecosystem
with
the
latest
addition
being
Aiven
for
Apache
Flink,
a
stream
processing
framework
and
Klaw,
a
data
governance
tool
for
Apache
Kafka.
With
the
company’s
recent
acquisition
of
Klaw,
Aiven
provides
a
comprehensive
portfolio
of
solutions
and
services
around
Apache
Kafka
to
let
customers
transport,
manage,
process,
operate
and
efficiently
govern
their
organisation’s
streaming
data
in
real
time.
Customers
using
the
Aiven
platform
can
now
tap
into
new
capabilities
with
Aiven’s
streamlined,
truly
end-to-end
open
source
event
streaming
architecture.
“We’re
especially
thrilled
with
these
announcements
as
they
continue
to
demonstrate
our
mission
of
making
developers’
lives
better,
providing
them
with
access
to
the
best-of-breed
open
source
data
tools
on
any
public
cloud
infrastructure
they
want
to
run
on,”
Sellers
says.
The
global
shortage
of
engineering
talent
complicates
things
further.
According
to
the
Equinix
2022
Global
Tech
Trends
Survey,
65%
of
Australian
IT
decision-makers
view
a
shortage
of
personnel
with
IT
skills
as
one
of
the
main
threats
to
their
business.
Companies
opting
for
managed
services
reduce
pressure
on
their
people
while
also
managing
spend.
Instead,
they
can
focus
on
the
initiatives
that
will
deliver
value
for
their
businesses
without
sacrificing
performance,
security,
and
the
stability
of
the
data
they’re
trying
to
collect.
With
Aiven’s
managed
cloud
infrastructure
capabilities,
developers
can
focus
on
building
the
application
rather
than
working
on
mundane
tasks.
Using
the
company’s
solutions
means
developers
have
more
time
to
focus
on
building
their
core
competencies
and
providing
value-added
services
to
their
customers.
Across
the
board,
data
is
an
area
that
businesses
can
realise
notable
value
through
entering
a
managed
services
agreement.
Most
companies
now
understand
the
concept
of
data
as
an
asset,
but
many
are
still
struggling
to
unlock
its
true
potential
to
create
new
products
and
revenue
streams.
This
is
where
outsourcing
the
management
of
big
data
comes
into
play.
As
companies
manage
increasingly
large
amounts
of
data
to
power
their
businesses,
Kafka
adoption
will
also
skyrocket.
With
the
handling
of
enormous
caches
of
data
comes
questions
on
security
and
data
governance.
As
a
result,
companies
will
increasingly
look
for
solutions
to
manage
the
integrity
and
security
of
their
data
in
enterprise
systems,
and
open
source
will
play
a
critical
role
in
this
as
well.
Klaw
allows
users
to
add
features
related
to
the
important
concerns
of
security
and
governance
of
Kafka
installations.
Moreover,
the
company
has
a
valuable
partner
ecosystem,
working
closely
with
cloud,
consulting,
services
and
technology
partners
like
AWS,
Google
Cloud,
Datadog
and
Azure,
to
name
a
few,
to
help
improve
developers’
lives,
support
customers,
and
drive
serious
value.
“Aiven’s
goal
in
the
industry
has
always
been
to
provide
solutions
that
help
organisations
build
and
maintain
modern
infrastructure,
taking
away
operational
concerns
and
giving
them
the
technologies
to
establish
an
open
source
data
cloud,”
Sellers
says.
“We
have
made
significant
investment
into
our
solutions
to
ensure
that
they
are
safe,
stable,
and
efficient
and
offer
businesses
the
compliance
and
data
governance
they
need.
“Our
presence
in
APAC
reflects
the
need
for
open
source
in
the
region,
and
we
look
forward
to
continuing
our
work
to
reach
more
developers
around
the
globe,”
Sellers
adds.
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