TRENDING
Maturity of digital initiatives
• Only 24% of enterprises in the Middle East
describe their digital initiatives as mature
Claude Schuck,
Regional Manager,
Middle East at Veeam
Ratmir Timashev, Co-founder and Executive
Vice President (EVP) of Sales and Marketing
at Veeam, said: “We are living in a data-
driven age and organisations need to wake
up and take action to protect their data.
Businesses must manage their data in a way
that always delivers availability and leverage
its value to drive performance.
“This is no longer a luxury, but a business
necessity. There is a significant opportunity
and competitive advantage for those who
effectively manage their data. Ask yourself,
are you confident that your business data
will always be available? If you are unsure,
it’s time to act, and our study shows that
many are not acting fast enough.”
success and drive more value from their data.
The 2019 Veeam Cloud Data Management
Report surveyed more than 1,500 senior
business and IT leaders from 13 countries
and found that respondents are aware of
the importance of data management to
their business’ success, pointing to greater
productivity currently and the potential to
drive business transformation in the future.
Middle East survey findings
Addressing Data
Management Challenges
• 93% of organisations will have cloud
data management initiatives in place by
the end of 2019 to drive success
• The average enterprise is investing US$41
million in transformational technologies
Companies are on a journey to become a
more intelligent business and have four
defining attributes
• Cloud data management: 76% have
SaaS deployments, citing security and
flexibility as key
• Capabilities: 89% see increasing
employee skills as critical to the success of
Intelligent Data Management initiatives
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• Culture: 66% believe company culture
must be more open to digital
• Confidence: 97% have confidence in
Intelligent Data Management initiatives
The big benefits of Digital Transformation
to Middle Eastern businesses
• 44% view the deployment of digital
technology as critical to success in the
next two years
• US$124 million can be added in
additional revenue annually through the
use of digital initiatives
• 80% see productivity benefits of
Intelligent Data Management
Organisations are looking to embrace the
power of technologies such as the cloud, or
hybrid cloud, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to
drive business success and will each invest
on average US$41 million in 2019 on such
transformational technologies. Almost half
of respondents admit that data protection
is imperative to leverage these investments.
Alarmingly, only 37% of businesses are very
confident in their current backup solutions,
with the majority (73%) admitting that they
cannot meet user demands.
This inhibits the adoption of tools and
processes that can drive business advantage,
but leaders recognise work needs to be done;
more than half of those surveyed are looking
to deploy Intelligent Data Management and
multi-cloud solutions across the business to
address this failing.
There are big benefits to be had from
the deployment of digital initiatives as
organisations on average attribute
US$124 million additional revenue [per
company] to these annually. However, these
findings shine a light on the global disparity
in digital adoption. Some of the world’s
largest economies are at risk of having
to play catch-up when it comes to their
investment in digital innovation.
Timashev added: “We’re seeing a global
digital arms race develop today, with some
of the world’s most advanced economies
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