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For the fourth straight year , cyber-attacks were listed as the most common and most impactful causes of business outages across organisations .
Unfortunately , only 25 % of organisations use a backup solution that is purpose-built for containers , while the rest of organisations back up only some of the underlying components .
Neither tactic ensures that the applications and services will be resumable after a crisis , or even a simple import , configuration error that needs to be undone .
The fact that 47 % of respondents expressed an intent to seek a new job outside of their current organisation within the next twelve months represents both a challenge and an opportunity for data protection initiatives .
While losing valuable data protection talent puts organisations at a significant disadvantage when crises inevitably strike , the market shift presents an opportunity to add knowledge to protect modern production workloads that reside in clouds . The report shows that the sophisticated cyber-threat landscape is impeding digital transformation initiatives that leadership teams are accountable for , and which are critical to the success of organisations today . Most organisations now consider cyber-resiliency , CR as a foundational aspect of their broader business continuity , disaster recovery , BC , DR strategy . Unfortunately , BC , DR preparedness is not yet passing most SLA expectations .
As organisations move workloads from one platform or cloud to another , IT teams are still relying on legacy backup solutions that do not offer equitable protection of cloud-hosted workloads . Here , increasing data protection budgets is only one part of the puzzle . The other part is investing budgets into data protection solutions that offer resilience through data security , data recovery , and data freedom purpose-built for today ’ s hybrid cloud demands .
Veeam commissioned the survey in late 2023 through an independent research firm . The report surveyed 1,200 unbiased IT leaders and implementors from all over the world and all sizes of organisations on a variety of data protection drivers , challenges , and strategies . p
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