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The Need for
Aggressive Data Protection Survey Results from 1,600 Small, Medium, and Large Businesses Worldwide 70% of respondents say more than half of all data is business critical, and that businesscritical data needs aggressive RTOs and RPOs. Demands for Recovery Time Objectives
Demands for Recovery Point Objectives
MORE THAN HOURS
MORE THAN HOURS
6
6
Less-Than-6-Hour RPO Demands, By Business Size 1 LARGE
31%
46%
72%
MEDIUM 54% LESS THAN HOURS
70%
SMALL
69%
6
65%
LESS THAN HOURS
65%
6 Larger businesses require stricter SLAs.
69%
Disk is still the dominant media for data protection today.2 69% of respondents rely on it.
What’s expected to grow the most:
What’s in use today: Medium Business
Small Business
Large Business
Small Business
66% 67% 55%
59%
Large Business
77%
52%
56% 47%
46%
57% 43%
54%
35%
54%
36%
32%
28% 28% 8%
General Disk
Backup Appliance
Tape
Cloud Services
13%
Backup Appliance
Tape
General Disk
Cloud Services
Disk growth is expected to stay strong, outpacing all other media for large businesses. Storage Snapshots 53% Use Storage Replication 50% Use
Data protection methods: Both backup software and storage technologies are heavily used.2
What’s in use today: Small Business 77%
Medium Business
What’s expected to grow the most:
Large Business
Small Business
57%
51%
88% 84%
45% 55%
60%
40%
Backup Software
Large Business
Storage Snapshots
Storage Replication
44% 38%
34%
59% 42% 44%
40%
40%
39%
45% 35%
Software Replication
Backup Software
Storage Snapshots
Storage Replication
Software Replication
Storage technologies – snapshots and replication – will be heavily leveraged to address strict SLAs.
Top Data Protection Challenges2 Meeting Recovery Point Objectives Meeting Backup Windows Meeting Recovery Time Objectives
