The Unfair Costs of Backup

The Unfair Costs of Backup Organizations are backing up loads of data... With emerging trends such as big data and ongoing regulatory compliance pressure, data volumes have skyrocketed. They have prompted mid market firms and enterprises to backup loads of data as a form of insurance. of enterprises indicate that their Just how much data is 77% data is growing at a rate of 5% to 25% annually. being backed up? Recent research results show most organizations are backing up at least Data Growth Rates 1TB of data. 30% of organizations are backing up more than 50TB of data. had 52% 5-10% DATA GROWTH DON'T KNOW 21% had 11-15% DATA GROWTH BACKUP 24% 1-10TB BACKUP 17% 22% 11-50TB had 16-20% DATA GROWTH BACKUP 52% GREATER THAN 50TB 9% had 21-25% DATA GROWTH And what percentage of data is being recovered? 11% Surprisingly, most organizations do not need to recover 100% of their data, unless they experience a catastrophic event and even then they are unlikely to want to invest the time and energy in recovering all of their data. So, exactly how much data ARE organizations recovering? It turns out, the majority of the organizations RECOVER LESS THAN 1% 26% RECOVER 1-5% 21% 84% recover less than 20% of their backed up data annually. But they are paying to recover 100% of their data. RECOVER 6-10% 16% RECOVER of the respondents felt that a backup and recovery software license model which charged for backup and recovery separately would be fair. 11-15% 52% 10% RECOVER 16-20% How much are enterprises spending on backup and recovery each year? 16% ALLOCATE 1-$5 Million 9% ALLOCATE 5.1-$10 Million The simple answer is: significant. 5% of organizations allocate a ALLOCATE 10.1-$25 Million substantial amount of their budget, $1 million or more, to ensure data protection is a critical aspect of their IT management process 36% 6% ALLOCATE $25 Million+ that ensures business continuity. Critical final question: to drill or not to drill? I 90% of the companies conducted between 1-3 recovery drills annually I Companies that did between 1-3 recovery drills recovered either less than 30% of their data, or more than 70% of their data during these drills I Companies that did more recovery drills seemed to recover more percentage of their data during these drills Recovery drills can prove to an organization that they will be able to recover their data when they need it the most. It is ALL about Recovery This research was conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group in February 2013. Data were collected from 479 financial buyers such as CIOs, VPs of IT, Directors of IT and technical buyers such as Storage Admins, Systems Admins, and Applications Admins from a wide range of industry verticals. For more information, visit www.recoveryiseverything.com POWERED BY Asıgra. www.asigra.com/fair-pricing