FEATURE: DISASTER RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
aspiring towards DX and IT modernisation.
Data is now spread across data centres and
clouds through file shares, shared storage
and even SaaS-based platforms. Legacy
tools designed to back up on-premises file
shares and applications cannot succeed in
the hybrid/multi-cloud world and are costing
companies time and resources while also
putting their data at risk,” added Allan.
trouble than realised. Modern protection,
such as Veeam’s Cloud Data Management
solutions, go far beyond backup. Cloud Data
Management provides a simple, flexible
and reliable solution that saves costs and
resources so they can be repurposed for
future development. Data protection can
no longer be tied to on-premises, physicallydedicated
environments and companies
ALMOST EVERY COMPANY ADMITTED
TO EXPERIENCING DOWNTIME, WITH
ONE OUT OF EVERY 10 SERVERS HAVING
UNEXPECTED OUTAGES EACH YEAR.
must-have flexible licensing options to easily
move to a hybrid/multi-cloud environment.”
Other highlights of the Veeam 2020 Data
Protection Trends Report include:
• Over half (54%) of Middle East and
African organisations have an ‘availability
gap’ between how fast they can recover
applications versus how fast they need to
recover them. This is significantly lower
than the global average of 73%.
• Over half (51%) of Middle East and
African organisations have a ‘protection
gap’ between how frequently data is
backed-up versus how much data they
can afford to lose after an outage. This
is significantly lower than the global
average of 69%.
• The No. 1 challenge that will impact
global organisations within the next 12
months is cyberthreats (32%). The most
impactful data protection challenge
DX and the cloud
Enterprises know they must continue to
make progress with their IT modernisation
and DX initiatives in order to meet new
industry challenges and according to this
report’s feedback, the most defining aspects
of a modern data protection strategy all
hinge upon utilisation of various cloud-based
capabilities: Organisations’ ability to do
Disaster Recovery (DR) via a cloud service
(54%), the ability to move workloads from
on-premises to cloud follows (50%) and the
ability to move workloads from one cloud to
another (48%).
Half of businesses recognise that cloud
has a pivotal part to play in today’s data
protection strategy; and it will most likely
become even more important in the future.
For a truly modernised data protection plan,
a company needs a comprehensive solution
that supports cloud, virtual and physical data
management for any application and any
data across any cloud.
Allan concluded: “By already starting to
modernise their infrastructures in 2020,
organisations expect to continue their
DX journey and increase their cloud use.
Legacy solutions were intended to protect
data in physical data centres in the past,
but they’re so outdated and complex that
they cost more money, time, resources and
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