Enterprise organizations are big and complex, and their IT strategies are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the business. With assured access to data being increasingly important, enterprise data backup and recovery is a vital element for IT organizations to deliver in order to meet their objectives to the business. So, what is most important to organizations when considering their enterprise backup solution? The 2022 Data Protection Trends Report explored that question and produced interesting insights from the 3,000+ enterprises (> 1,000 employees) across 28 countries.
Enterprise = Heterogeneous
The research shows that enterprise backup has the daunting requirement of protecting modern/cloud-hosted workloads, enterprise applications and traditional data center platforms. That speaks to the general makeup of enterprise IT organizations today as being hybrid, multi-cloud environments. In fact, the “new normal” for modern IT is approximately 50/50 between on-premises servers and cloud-hosted servers, as discussed in last week’s blog — and every data protection strategy must accommodate physical, virtual and multiple cloud-hosted options.
Solving for geographic complexity is a key consideration as well
In most situations, the bigger the enterprise, the more locations and satellite IT environments there are to manage. It’s no surprise that the ability to manage across multiple locations and geographies is also a top-ranking key consideration for Modern Data Protection. It is important to distinguish between “sprawl” and “scale.” While 46% of respondents equated Enterprise Backup as “Easy to manage across multiple locations/geographies” (and 12% said it was the most important aspect of their next purchase), only 38% regarded “scales to 1,000s or 10,000s of protected devices” in the same way (and only 7% deemed it most important).
Tell us what you think – what does “Enterprise Backup” mean to you? Email us at StrategicResearch@veeam.com
This post is the first part of a multi-part series, so please stay tuned to the Veeam blog:
- Part 1: What is driving change & what are organizations looking for moving forward
- Part 2: What do Hybrid and Multi-Cloud architectures look like and how does that affect your data protection strategy
- Part 3: Data Protection for Public Sector
- Part 4: What does “Enterprise Backup” mean in 2022?
- Part 5: Data Protection Trends in Healthcare
- Part 6: Alignment of Backup within Cyber Preparedness
- Part 7: Real-World Statistics on Downtime and Data Loss in 2022
- Part 8: What should BC/DR look like in 2022?
- Part 9: What is driving Data Protection Strategies in Financial Services and Insurance for 2022
Please reach out to Dave (@BackupDave) or I (@JBuff) to tell us how this research aligns with your organization’s data protection goals for 2022 — and don’t forget to download the full report.
About the 2022 Data Protection Report: Veeam’s Data Protection Report is the latest and largest research report on data protection ever in the history of backup and availability, as surveyed by an independent research firm with nearly 3,400 responses from 28 countries. Download the full 2022 Data Protection Report to get access to all the latest data protection insights. Want to learn more about enterprise backup solutions at Veeam? Visit our Enterprise Backup Solutions Page.