Death of Tape Imminent – CloudBerry Lab

CloudBerry Lab, Inc., a vendor of backup and management solutions for public cloud storage services, announced the results from a survey conducted at the AWS re:Invent conference, the largest gathering of the global Amazon Web Services community. 

Analysis of the results indicate that 88% of the IT pros surveyed admitted that they have lost data due to hardware failure, data corruption, malware or accidental deletion of a file. Even more surprisingly, despite this high incidence of data loss, 38% have never tested the recoverability of their backed-up data and 47% wait up to a month or more to backup.

The survey collected responses from 100 qualified IT professionals, including developers, architects and technical decision makers attending the 2014 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, NE, taking place November 11 – 14, 2014. Event attendees spanned a wide cross-section of industries in organizations ranging in size from SMBes to large enterprises. Respondents were asked questions related to digital backup and recovery practices.

Other key findings Include:

• The death of tape is imminent: Just 5% of respondents indicated that they still use tape or other removable media for backup.
• Most forget to backup at home: Half of respondents, 50%, indicated that they don’t backup their personal data more frequently because they “simply forget to do it.”
• Unsecured backups are fairly common: Nearly one third – 32% – of the IT pros surveyed indicated they either knew they werenot protected or didn’t know whether their backups were secured (e.g., encrypted, password-protected, etc.).
• Cloud is the future home of all data: Nearly half of all those surveyed – 49% – believe that more than half of all digital information currently resides in the cloud. 93% believe that in just five years more than half the data in the universe will live in the cloud. One quarter of respondents – 25% – said they expect more than 90% of all digital data to be stored in the cloud by 2019.

CloudBerry Labs’ Managed Backup Service offering is designed to meet the standards MSPs and IT resellers for backup and DR solutions, enabling customers to conduct bare metal/system state restores, as well as restorations of individual files and applications, including SQL Server and Exchange. It also allows organizations to select from cloud services providers including Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or any S3-compatible storage. CloudBerry Managed Backup can be re-branded and customized, allowing providers to create their own branded solution offerings.