89% of IT Leaders Looking to Cloud for Backup and Recovery – Quorum

Quorum, Inc., in DR and BC, today a key study called The State of DR 2016 revealing current and future IT spend on DR, backup and recovery products.

This is a collection of over 250 CIOs, CTOs and VP of ITs thoughts on ten different aspects of their current backup and recovery architectures and what they are looking to change. This study also dives into statistics on challenges in complexity, speed of recovery, risks, biggest fears, and current sentiment on how DR products can be better for customers.

It is clear that businesses of all sizes have their in the cloud to accelerate recovery with less spend and be prepared for when trouble arises.

“As more organizations explore cloud-backup and recovery, they are finding ways to accelerate recovery while minimizing costs,” said Darin Pendergraft, VP of product. “This study’s biggest value is it gives a customer centric look into where this industry is headed in the next month, next year and into the future.”

Five of the ten key findings of this study:

• 39% of respondents are currently using cloud based only with 36% using a hybrid approach. 24% still using on premise DR architecture.
• 89% of IT leaders are planning in implementing more cloud based DR in the next year.
• 80% of IT leaders say it takes more than an hour to recover from a server failure, with more than 25% saying they need more than two hours. The catch is that 98% of IT leaders believe that speed of recovery plays an important role, with over 70% claiming it’s extremely critical to their business.
• Over 50% of IT leaders are most worried about security threats over other disruptions including hardware failure, backup disk corruption, natural disasters, power outages and human error.
• 64% of respondents are using more than three different DR solutions, with 26% using over 5 different products. The catch is that 90% of respondents would like to consolidate their DR solutions into one dashboard.

What disaster recovery architecture are you currently using?
75% of respondents are using cloud-based disaster recovery solutions. 36% opt for a hybrid on premise and cloud model, and 39% use DraaS only. 24% of respondents use only on premise disaster recovery solutions, rather than choosing the cloud.

“It is clear the right strategies and solutions are available and IT leaders have their eyes on a future of faster recovery and stronger security,” said Jason Snook, systems engineer. “Automated testing allows for faster recovery and the customers we talk to view encryption for all of their backup data as the new standard and foundation to their security posture.”

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