EC News DeskVeeam 2020 Data Protection Trends Report indicates global businesses are embracing digital transformation, but struggle with antiquated solutions to protect and manage their data. Veeam commissioned Vanson Bourne, a technology sector research partner, to conduct an online survey of 1,550 business leaders and ITDMs across 22 different countries, in early 2020.
Almost half of global organisations are being hindered in their digital transformation journeys due to unreliable, legacy technologies with 44% citing lack of IT skills or expertise as another barrier to success. Respondents stated that data delivered through IT has become the heart and soul of most organisations.
Many organisations 40% still rely on legacy systems to protect their data without fully appreciating the negative impact this can have on their business. The vast majority 95% of organisations suffer unexpected outages and on average, an outage lasts 117 minutes, almost two hours.
Enterprises know they must continue to make progress with their IT modernisation and digital transformation initiatives in order to meet new industry challenges. The most defining aspects of a modern data protection strategy all hinge upon utilisation of various cloud-based capabilities.
Half of businesses recognise that cloud has a pivotal part to play in data protection strategy. 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.
Regional snapshot
- 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.
- 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.
- The most impactful data protection challenge in the Middle East and Africa, is the lack of ability to support DevOps or AppDev 27%.
- 43% respondents in Middle East and Africa said lack of IT staff skills or expertise is preventing or has prevented their organisation to move forward with digital transformation.
- 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.
- 19% of Middle East and African organisations is not backed up, which is higher than the global average of 14%.
- 43% global organisations plan to leverage cloud-based backup managed by a BaaS provider within the next two years, this is the same as Middle East and African organisations.
