SMBs Struggle With Data Protection’s Rising Complexity
IT Infrastructure Deployed
The IT infrastructure landscape has never been more complex: 79% of respondents still have physical servers on premise and more than 60% have virtual servers, as well. What’s more, 37% already have a mix of physical, virtual and cloud deployments.
Hypervisor Usage
When it comes to hypervisors, it’s now a hybrid world. VMware still dominates at 49%, but Microsoft Hyper-V is already at 41%.
Number of Hypervisor Vendors
More organizations are getting comfortable with multiple hypervisor platforms: 51% are running hypervisors from two different vendors.
Heterogeneous Hypervisor Adoption
Hypervisors now come in multiple forms: 67% are running one hypervisor other than VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V.
Biggest Backup and Recovery Challenge
The complexity of backup processes is cited as the biggest challenge by 33%, followed by cost of disparate systems, at 32%.
Reasons for Using Multiple Backup Products
Few backup and recovery products are optimized for all scenarios; 59% cite application issues and 44% cite virtualization.
Virtual Server Backup Processes
Virtual servers don’t always receive the level of data protection they require; 54% back up their virtual servers as often as they do physical ones.
Demand for Unified Backup and Recovery
Reducing backup and recovery complexity is always in demand; 44% report being very or extremely interested in unifying backup and recovery.
Percentage of Data Backed Up to a Remote Site
Backing up data to a remote site is an increasingly standard operating procedure; 70% back up more than 50% of their data to a remote site.
Cloud Usage for Backup
Backing up data is one of the primary uses for the cloud. A full 65% report using the cloud to backup data, but 87% of those that do say they also want a local copy.
Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs)
Focus these days is on losing as little data as possible. A full 84% have RPOs of an hour or less.
Recovery Time Objectives
Tolerance for downtime is falling rapidly. Almost three-quarters (73%) have recovery times of under four hours.
The Cost of Downtime
With organizations running more applications, the cost of downtime has increased significantly. The cost of downtime is more than $60,000 per hour for more than 37% of respondents.