Ransomware and SaaS Raise the Bar for Disaster Recovery Requirements The 451 Take Just behind data growth, meeting disaster recovery and data protection requirements was the top storage pain point for respondents to the Voice of the Enterprise: Storage, Data Management and Disaster Recovery 2021 study. Disaster recovery (DR) and data protection have long been challenging for organizations, and meeting customer requirements has only become more difficult with the rise of SaaS and other cloud platforms, as well ransomware threats becoming more prevalent. Today’s data protection and DR tools have several key capabilities that are rapidly growing in importance. First, the rise of cloud storage is having an impact on both primary storage and secondary storage operations such as backup, archiving and DR. The ability to leverage cloud storage resources as an alternative to on-premises storage infrastructure is already well underway; 59% of respondents in the same study reported that their on-premises storage budgets have been impacted by the rising use of public cloud storage. Beyond cost saving, organizations must also meet security and compliance needs. By storing backup and archive data in a public cloud or service provider cloud environment, customers can potentially benefit from repositories that are protected with immutable formats to ensure recovery even when operational control and data access is wrested away from the organization in a ransomware incident. Outages and Ransomware Are Key Concerns for Organizations
31%
have experienced an outage in the past two years
21%
test their DR more than twice a year
61%
have had outages that cost their organizations over $100,000
55%
have taken hours to recover from their most significant outage
32%
of recent outages have been caused by hardware failure
30%
of recent outages have been caused by software failure
30%
of recent outages have been caused by security issues (e.g., ransomware, virus)
50%
rely on their cloud vendor for backup and recovery of their data stored in SaaS platforms
26%
are extremely confident in their ability to recover data from a ransomware incident using current backup tools
52%
are storing their gold copy of data on public cloud storage
33%
are storing their gold copy of data on off-premises tape
increasing their spending for data protection as a result of the potential 73% are threats of ransomware Source: 451 Research’s Voice of The Enterprise: Storage, Data Management and Disaster Recovery 2021
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