Security News > 2022 > November > Cloud data protection trends you need to be aware of

"As cybersecurity threats continue to increase, organizations must look beyond traditional backup services and build a purposeful approach that best suits their business needs and cloud strategy. This survey shows that workloads continue to fluidly move from data centers to clouds and back again, as well as from one cloud to another - creating even more complexity in data protection strategy. The results of this survey show that while modern IT enterprises have made significant strides in cloud and data protection, there is still work to be done."

2023 cloud protection trends Software as a service 90% of organizations realize they need to back up Microsoft 365.

88% of organizations brought workloads from the cloud back to their data center for one or more reasons - highlighting a need for 2023 data protection strategies to ensure consistent protection and the ability to migrate, as workloads move from data center to cloud, cloud to data center, or from one cloud to another cloud.

Nearly every IaaS/SaaS environment also utilizes cloud services as part of their data protection strategy in some form.

58% of organizations utilize managed backup compared to the 42% that utilize cloud storage as part of their self-managed data protection solution.

Of special interest, 48% started with self-managed cloud storage but eventually switched to BaaS. 98% of organizations claim to use cloud services as part of their data protection strategy, though that varies from cloud storage as a repository to full-fledged BaaS or DRaaS services.

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