In May 2014, Acronis and IDC sponsored a worldwide, cross-industry survey of SMBs to ascertain their evolving data protection and disaster recovery (DR) needs.
The survey results show that cloud technologies play a prominent role in these organizations’ DR plans, and the survey drilled down into cloud-specific areas as well including:
By reading the survey executive summary, you will learn how and why cloud growth is driving changes to data protection techniques and solutions.
The survey results show that cloud technologies play a prominent role in these organizations’ DR plans, and the survey drilled down into cloud-specific areas as well including:
- The percent of organization that manage physical servers, virtual servers, and cloud-based operations
- The number and kind of hypervisors organizations are running
- The cost of downtime and RPO/RTO requirements
- How many organizations have a DR plan in place and how many test their plans
- The percent of organizations that back up data to a remote site
- The percent of organizations that want to retain on-premise backup copies
- The drivers of onsite data retention
- Offsite data location preferences
- The drivers of cloud usage
By reading the survey executive summary, you will learn how and why cloud growth is driving changes to data protection techniques and solutions.