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in place and could quickly recover from a
ransomware attack, nearly a quarter (23%)
do not test their recovery plans. Of those
that do test, nearly half (46%) only test their
recovery plans once a year or less.
Further highlighting the difference between
the perception and reality of being able
to recover from a ransomware attack, the
majority (86%) of respondents confirmed
they suffered data loss in the past year, with
over a quarter (27%) suffering data loss in
the last six months.
The research also uncovered issues
around the budget and complexity of
IT infrastructure, which will add to the
challenge of ransomware preparedness.
• Nearly half (46%) of respondents
reported that they do not have the
budget to manage their data and recover
from a failure adequately.
• Again, nearly half (49%) of respondents
reported they have between three and
five different types of systems to manage
and protect data. And 33% have six or
more different types of systems.
StorageCraft data protection, data
management and Business Continuity
solutions allow organisations to keep their
critical information always safe, accessible
and optimised with StorageCraft’s powerful
data protection offerings delivering instant,
reliable and complete data recovery
and eliminate downtime. Our innovative
converged secondary scale-out storage
platform, with integrated data protection,
solves data growth challenges, is efficient
and easy to use.
How does StorageCraft offer a simple
but robust data protection offering?
ShadowXafe is StorageCraft’s nextgeneration
data protection solution. It gives
customers affordable access to a simple,
comprehensive and cost-effective solution
that meets the highest of backup and
recovery metrics attainable.
It is easy to manage, affordable and robust,
ensuring constant data availability and
uptime for businesses. Benefits include
complete data protection. By making all
data retroactively restorable within seconds,
ransomware is no longer a threat. Customers
can scale at speed and with ease because
ShadowXafe can restore any device or an
entire IT infrastructure from a single console.
ShadowXafe ensures total Disaster
Recovery and Business Continuity by
replicating data to a public cloud, a
StorageCraft Cloud for a complete Disaster-
Recovery-as-a-Service or an off-premises
location, all with uncompromising reliability,
speed and simplicity.
In addition to ShadowXafe, OneXafe is
a converged data platform that unifies
enterprise-class data protection with
scale-out storage in an easy-to-use,
configurable solution. For businesses
looking to protect and manage their data
in heterogeneous environments, OneXafe
eliminates complexity and provides flexible
deployment to accommodate various
workload requirements.
It significantly reduces costs associated with
secondary storage as well as data protection
software. By providing a converged solution,
OneXafe removes the need for siloed point
solutions and minimises costs incurred
from standalone hardware and software
offerings. Data protection services are
directly integrated into the distributed
object store, delivering powerful backup
and recovery, with a workflow optimised for
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IF THE DATA
IS BREACHED,
SUBJECT TO A
RANSOMWARE
ATTACK OR
UNAVAILABLE
FOR A GIVEN
PERIOD OF TIME,
IT CAN PROVE
CATASTROPHIC
TO A BUSINESS.
simplified management. OneXafe integrates
with StorageCraft Cloud Services, with a
single click it provides Business Continuity
of data, network and application recovery in
StorageCraft’s cloud.
What trends or emerging
trends are you seeing in the
data protection area?
As data volumes continue to grow at an
exponential rate, companies must not only
store their data; they must approach data
management expertly and look to new
approaches. These may include:
• The ‘prevention era’ will be overtaken
by the ‘recovery era’: While data
protection remains crucial, in the data
recovery era, the sooner organisations
adopt a restore and recover mentality,
the more they will be able to benefit from
successful Business Continuity strategies.
• The repatriation of cloud data:
Many organisations are embracing
the notion of cloud data repatriation.
They’re increasingly deploying a hybrid
infrastructure in which some data and
applications remain in the cloud,
while more critical data and applications
come back to an on-premises
storage infrastructure.
• A data-centric approach to storage:
Today companies are generating oceans
of data, not all of which is of equal
importance. Organisations that recognise
this and implement storage policies
based on the value of their data, will be
in a stronger position when it comes to
data storage, management and leverage.
As such, it’s likely that we will start to
see businesses match their most critical
servers with their most important data.
• Immutable storage for businesses
of all sizes: Ransomware will continue
to be a scourge to all businesses. It’s
more important than ever to protect
data with immutable object storage
and continuous data protection.
Organisations will increasingly look
for a storage solution that protects
information continuously by taking
snapshots as frequently as possible.
Companies that capitalise on these new
trends and take new approaches to data
management and protection will be able to
thrive in the digital economy. •
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