Guest Blog
In the previous two posts in this series of IDC blogs on data protection, I highlighted how modern enterprise IT trends such as hybrid cloud adoption, data fragmentation, and ransomware challenge organizations to become resilient and trusted. I also highlighted the limitations in traditional data protection strategies in meeting the new requirements.
In this blog, I will highlight how a modern data protection strategy can overcome the challenges but also help deliver digital business outcomes.
As data-driven strategies become front and center for C-suites everywhere, it's time to think about data protection as strategic to meeting broader business outcomes. In conversations with IDC, IT leaders identify their top priorities as follows:
A modern data protection paradigm is needed to deliver on these six business outcomes. Organizations should treat all valuable business data as "first-class citizens" to create a strong first line of defense and to ensure last-mile security.
A modern data protection paradigm can ensure that no data is left behind — data on-premises, data in SaaS environments, data in the cloud, and new data at the edge.
How?
By 2024, net-new production-grade cloud-native apps will increase to 70% from 10% of all apps in 2020, due to adoption of technologies such as microservices, containers, dynamic orchestration, and DevOps, according to the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Digital Innovation 2021 Predictions, European Implications.
The current best practice for recovery point object (RPO) is 15 minutes, down from 1 hour, and the current best practice for recovery time object (RTO) is down to seconds from 2 hours.
53% of organizations see investments in security, privacy, and compliance technologies to improve the organization's risk posture as a priority over the next two years to build resilience.
The top 3 areas that savvy organizations have identified for "greater automation" in IDC's Future Enterprise Resilience Survey (February 2021) are data protection (42%); network/endpoint security (32%); and infrastructure resources (compute, storage) optimization (30%).
Spiraling costs, SaaS data protection, implementing modern databases, disjointed data management, ensuring rapid recovery, lack of data visibility, and complexity are all top IT pain points today.
If the broad six business outcomes are on your radar too, it's time to embark on these five best practices. It's time to reassess and introduce a modern, unified, and automated data protection foundation. It's time to make data protection a business enabler.
To learn more about how enterprises can boost data resiliency and compliance in hybrid cloud by leveraging modern data platforms, data protection, and archiving capabilities access the recent IDC webinar, ‘Reset today for what matters the most – data protection, compliance and resilience’.
Link to webinar: Reset today for what matters the most - Data Protection, Compliance & Resilience
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