New workloads are driving data protection modernization

2021-05-07 03:00

94.7% of IT leaders saw an impact to their work-from-home data protection as a result of COVID-19, according to IDC. The survey also unearthed that 90.8% of respondents point to modernizing data protection, including backup and disaster recovery, as a top IT priority that is crucial to their organizations' overall digital transformation.

The survey found many organizations are serious about data protection modernization as 80% of new applications will be deployed in the cloud or at the edge, where most cloud applications will either be SaaS or cloud-native containerised applications, thus potentially creating a data management gap.

Not only do these factors further contribute to data becoming siloed and requiring separate data protection, disaster recovery, and other solutions, but they also add infrastructure costs and staffing inefficiencies.

The survey revealed that a disturbing 95.1% of organizations have suffered a ransomware or malware attack in the past 12 months with more than 80% indicating at least one attack resulting in data corruption, 43% experiencing unrecoverable data within the past 12 months, and 36.6% having suffered more than 25 attacks during that time.

One key point uncovered by the research is the cause of data loss when organizations experienced unrecoverable data.

As the report highlights, one of the key technologies now emerging to help IT organizations improve data protection, reduce data loss, and recover data more quickly is continuous data protection.

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