FINAL WORD
As cloud continues its trajectory to becoming the dominant data platform , 67 % of organisations already use cloud services as part of their data protection strategy , while 56 % now run containers in production or plan to in the next 12 months .
Platform diversity will expand during 2022 , with the balance between data centre ( 52 %) and cloud servers ( 48 %) continuing to close . This is one reason 21 % of organisations rated the ability to protect cloud-hosted workloads as the most important buying factor for enterprise data protection in 2022 and 39 % believe IaaS / SaaS capabilities to be the definitive attribute of Modern Data Protection .
Anand Eswaran , Chief Executive Officer at Veeam organisation ’ s Modern Data Protection strategy ,” said Danny Allan , CTO at Veeam .
“ For peace of mind , organisations need 100 % certainty that backups are being completed within the allocated
window and restorations deliver within required SLAs . The best way to ensure data is protected and recoverable in the event of a ransomware attack is to partner with a third-party specialist and invest in an automated and orchestrated solution that protects the myriad data centre and cloud-based production platforms that organisations rely on today .”
Businesses face a data protection emergency
To close the gap between data protection capabilities and this growing threat landscape , organisations will spend around 6 % more annually on data protection than broader IT investments . While this will only go some way to reversing the trend of data protection needs outpacing ability to execute , it is positive to see CXOs acknowledge the urgent need for Modern Data Protection .
“ The power of hybrid IT architectures is driving both production and protection strategies through cloudstorage and Disaster Recovery utilising cloud-hosted infrastructure ,” concluded Allan . “ The benefits of investing in Modern Data Protection go beyond providing peace of mind , ensuring Business Continuity and maintaining customer confidence . To balance expenditure against strategic digital initiatives , IT leaders must implement robust solutions at the lowest possible cost .”
Other key findings from the report include :
• Businesses have an availability gap : 90 % of respondents confirmed they have an availability gap between their expected SLAs and how quickly they can return to productivity . This has risen by 10 % since 2021 .
• Data remains unprotected : Despite backup being a fundamental part of any data protection strategy , 18 % of global organisations ’ data is not backed up – therefore , completely unprotected .
• Human error is far too common : Technical failures are the most frequent cause of downtime with an average of 53 % of respondents experiencing outages across infrastructure / networking , server hardware and software . 46 % of respondents experienced cases of administrator configuration error , while 49 % were hindered by accidental deletion , overwriting of data or corruption caused by users .
• Protecting remote workers : Only 25 % of organisations utilise orchestrated workflows to reconnect resources during a disaster , while 45 % run predefined scripts to reconnect resources running remotely in the event of downtime and 29 % manually reconfigure user connectivity .
• Economic drivers remain critical : When asked about the most important factors when purchasing an enterprise data solution , 25 % of IT leaders are motivated by improving the economics of their solution . p
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