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Data protection challenges are undermining organizations' abilities to execute digital transformation initiatives globally, according to the Veeam report, which has found that 58% of backups fail, leaving data unprotected.

Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and ensuing economic uncertainty, which 40% of CXOs cite as the biggest threat to their organization's DX in the next 12 months, inadequate data protection and the challenges to business continuity posed by the pandemic are hindering organizations' initiatives to transform.

The report surveyed more than 3,000 IT decision makers at global enterprises to understand their approaches to data protection and data management.

"Businesses are being held back by legacy IT and outdated data protection capabilities, as well as the time and money invested in responding to the most urgent challenges posed by COVID-19. Until these inadequacies are addressed, genuine transformation will continue to evade organizations."

Despite the integral role backup plays in modern data protection, 14% of all data is not backed up at all and 58% of recoveries fail, leaving businesses' data unprotected and irretrievable in the event of an outage by cyberattack.

In the next 12 months, IT leaders will look to get their DX journeys back on track by finding immediate solutions to their critical data protection needs, with almost a third looking to move data protection to the cloud.

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