Don’t worry about backups. Ever. Enterprise backup and data management across edge, on-premises and cloud data sets.
The most important attribute of an enterprise backup solution is its breadth and scope of protection. On-premises infrastructure, plus cloud-based IaaS and SaaS platforms, and application specific protection features. Couple that with scale and simplicity.
We have entered a hybrid era where data is omnipresent, but data protection policies and processes have failed to keep up. To compound that risk further, the cloud and demands for similar agility on-premises have seen the deployment of IT services without the traditional checks and controls that mitigate corporate risk by means of accepted processes built up over decades. Never more have we stood at the threshold of such a pivotal point in data protection technology change, and never has it been more exciting.
The enterprise is currently a hybrid model of physical servers and virtual machines which have both stabilised at around 50% of an organisation’s overall IT plan, with the rest being cloud hosted. Modern enterprise data protection solutions must provide equitable capabilities across all three of these architectures. Organisations should plan for workloads moving across clouds and even back on premises; the data protection strategy should accommodate that fluidity, scale and response.
Most organisations manage their cybersecurity or ransomware remediation strategy as part of their more holistic business continuity and disaster recovery planning process. This is understandable considering the increasing frequency of ransomware attacks. In 2022, 85% of organisations were successfully attacked by ransomware, and the 15% that believe they were not hit may be sitting on a ticking time bomb.
Of those that suffered, 39% of entire production data sets were successfully encrypted or destroyed. Of the encrypted or destroyed data, only 55% was recoverable. Ensuring your data recovery tools can integrate with other cyber detection and remediation technologies is paramount for comprehensive cyber resilience.
Containers have become a mainstream production platform and have similar inconsistencies in data protection strategies as seen previously with early adopters of SaaS 5 years ago, or virtualisation 15 years ago. When organisations are asked who is responsible for defining the data protection requirements for containerised applications, the answers are shocking. Everyone thinks somebody else is doing it. Often, nobody is.
Only one in four organisations use a backup tool for protecting the containers framework in its entirety. If containerisation continues its current adoption curve, then businesses will regrettably discover that simply protecting the storage that underpins them will be inadequate. At which point, like every burgeoning platform before it, third-party backups will become the norm for containers.
Traditional perimeter-based IT security defences that protect an organisation’s trusted internal network from untrusted external networks are failing. The network perimeter has all but disappeared with the proliferation of endpoints and the rapid adoption of flexible remote working models.
This modern threat landscape is driving many organisations to adopt a zero-trust approach to cybersecurity. This security model is based on the concept of never trust, always verify. Although Zero Trust is not a new concept, it has garnered a lot of attention in recent years as more organisations recognise its effectiveness against modern threats and technology vendors seek to meet market demand. A trend to fit their product offerings.
Zero-trust data protection should form part of a zero-trust architecture. It delivers intelligent data management for hybrid and multi-cloud IT environments in a single software platform. This platform securely delivers the following across datacentres and clouds: backup, recovery, analytics and compliance.
Backup data can never be changed once it is written. This means your backups are safeguarded against ransomware and other threats.
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