451 Research: Enterprise Buyers’ Guide to Data Protection 2024

The Enterprise Buyers' Guide to Data Protection 2024 is designed to highlight key market trends and challenges while providing information on what capabilities and processes organizations should consider implementing to ensure their investment in data protection not only meets current requirements but can adapt to modern workloads, including software as a service and cloud-native architectures, which require higher levels of scalability and data mobility relative to traditional and legacy applications. Data protection delivery has evolved beyond on-premises software and appliances to include service offerings, such as online backup and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), that can help relieve the day-to-day operational and management burden of data protection tasks.

The Enterprise Buyers' Guide to Data Protection 2024 covers five key actions for modernizing and enhancing data protection and resiliency:

• Integrate cloud resources to boost scalability and flexibility
• Choose offerings that harden backups and detect cybersecurity threats earlier
• Leverage services to offload operational data protection burdens
• Extend and modernize data protection for SaaS and containers
• Choose platforms with AI enhancements to improve operational efficiency