FEATURE: DISASTER RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
global organisations currently have is the
lack of staff to work on new initiatives
(42%), whereas in the Middle East and
Africa, it is the lack of ability to support
DevOps or AppDev (27%).
• Over half (51%) of global respondents
believe DX can help their organisation
transform customer service. Almost
half said it could transform business
operations (48%) and deliver cost
savings (47%).
• Almost one-quarter (23%) of global
organisations describe their progress
towards achieving DX initiatives and
goals as mature or fully implemented.
• Almost a third (30%) of global
organisations are currently in the early
stages of implementing or planning DX.
• 43% of regional respondents in Middle
East and Africa said lack of IT staff
skills or expertise is preventing or has
prevented their organisation from moving
forward with DX. Other barriers include
dependency on legacy systems (40%);
lack of buy-in from senior management
(23%); limited budgets (29%) and lack
of time (16%).
• Over a third (39%) of global
respondents said the ability to improve
reliability of backups is the most likely
reason to drive their organisation to
change its primary backup solution. A
total of 38% cited reduced software or
hardware costs and 33% said improving
return on investment.
• Almost a quarter (23%) of global
organisations’ data is replicated and
made Business Continuity (BC)/DR
capable via a cloud provider. Over a
fifth (21%) of data across organisations
globally is not replicated or staged
for BC/DR
• Over a quarter (27%) of global
organisations’ data is backed up to the
cloud by a Backup as a Service (BaaS)
provider, compared to 28% of Middle
East and African organisations. Nearly a
fifth (19%) of Middle East and African
organisations are not backed up, which is
higher than the global average of 14%.
• Over two in five (43%) global
organisations plan to leverage cloudbased
backup managed by a BaaS
provider within the next two years,
this is the same as Middle East and
African organisations.
Claude Schuck, Regional Manager, Middle
East at Veeam, said: “According to our
2020 Data Protection Trends Report, Middle
East and African organisations would be
well advised to focus on staff training and
development as well as on IT modernisation
to accelerate Digital Transformation.
“With data being the most valuable
business asset today, its protection and
security is paramount and should be the
base and stepping stone of each
company’s digitalisation strategy.
Although organisations in the Middle
East spend a lot on security technologies
in general, there is still a considerable
discrepancy when it comes to planning
and implementing a data protection
policy. Regional IT decision-makers need to
have a consistent action plan in place
which includes important measures like
stress testing of IT systems, regular
backups, a Disaster Recovery plan and
educating employees.”•
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