State of Data Protection and DR Readiness

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The State of Data Protection and DR Readiness: 2021
To learn about evolving requirements for backup and disaster recovery and how organizations are dealing with emerging challenges.

Top IT priorities include:

• Cloud-first deployments
• IT transformation
• Implementing cloud-based disaster recovery

In addition, other key findings include:

• 95% of organizations have had to rethink data protection due to the sudden emergence of work from home.
• New workloads, including containerized applications and SaaS, are driving data protection modernization.
• Malware and ransomware attacks are so pervasive that organizations must provide protection from them and ensure recovery.
• 43% of organizations suffered unrecoverable data within the past 12 months.
• 63% of organizations have suffered a data-related business disruption within the past 12 months.