55% of Respondents Unsure or Not Confident at All Their Organization’s Files Are Backed Up

Imation Corp. announced the results of an Imation and TechValidate Software, Inc. survey of more than 300 IT end users around the world. While the survey shows that 70% of organizations have corporate policies governing where high-value data should be stored, and 69% of organizations have a solution in place for storing high-value data, 55% of respondents said they are “unsure” or “not confident at all” that their organization’s files are being backed up.

Confidence that files are backed up

In addition, according to the survey, three of the four most common file types in organizations’ data centers are office productivity documents, images and rich media – or unstructured data sets, the kind of data most commonly considered to be high-value data and that is contributing to most of the data growth in today’s data centers.

Data breaches in the news demonstrate the devastating effects of failing to properly identify and secure high-value data,“” said Christine Taylor, analyst, Taneja Group. “Yet it’s clear from Imation’s survey that organizations aren’t confident their high-value data is protected. It’s not for lack of trying – companies do their best to safeguard critical information. But in our increasingly digital and mobile age, critical data is too often lost, corrupted or comprised. Businesses need the right tools right now, before they experience potentially catastrophic loss.”

One critical step in protecting high-value data is identifying it properly in the first place. Imation Secure Data Discovery is interactive software that helps IT administrators do just that by assessing the value of their file data based on the ages and types of files they have. Secure Data Discovery quickly provides a report, analyzing how many of the organization’s files are considered high-value data, how much disk space those files use and how much primary storage capacity can be saved by offloading less frequently accessed high-value data to secure archive solution for long term protection.

“These results reinforce that there’s a tremendous need in the marketplace for storage solutions that can simplify the identification, classification and ongoing management of increasing amounts of high-value data,” said Abhik Mitra, senior solutions marketing manager, Imation’s Nexsan solutions. “We’ve also seen that there are tremendous cost savings that can be realized from distinguishing an organization’s most valuable data from the rest and storing and protecting all of the data on the appropriate storage solutions. It’s our mission to make this process as simple and efficient as possible, so organizations can be confident their most critical data is secure and spend more of their limited resources on other pressing business matters.“