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Research Shows Ransomware is Plaguing the Enterprise Data CenterSUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Datrium, pioneer of the secure multicloud data platform for the resilient enterprise, today released findings from its industry report on the State of Enterprise Data Resiliency and Disaster Recovery 2019, which assesses how organizations are implementing disaster recovery (DR) to protect their data from attack or disaster. Findings suggest that organizations are growing more concerned about the threat of disaster as a result of ransomware, human error, power failure and natural disaster. The heightened threat of ransomware is particularly concerning for the enterprise data center, with nearly 90% of companies considering ransomware a critical threat to their business, and this is driving the need for DR. The research also found that the public cloud is increasingly being considered as a DR site. The cloud offers greater ease of use and cost-efficient DR, solving several pain points that are holding organizations back from responding to DR events including the complexity of DR products and processes as well as high associated costs. The State of Enterprise Data Resiliency and Disaster Recovery 2019 study was developed to identify what DR solutions businesses currently utilize, their confidence in those solutions and how effective the solutions are at helping businesses return to normal operations following a disaster, in addition to the key capabilities IT teams consider when evaluating and selecting a DR solution to create their DR plan. "This research confirms that ransomware is one of the biggest concerns for IT managers today," said Tim Page, CEO of Datrium. "This threat is significantly driving people to reevaluate their DR plans. It's no surprise that more than 88% of respondents said they'd use the public cloud for their DR site if they could pay for it only when they need to test or run their DR plans." Ransomware is Plaguing the Enterprise Data Center
Traditional Approaches to DR Put Organizations at Risk The top three reasons why failback was difficult included difficulty with format conversion, the amount of time required to failback and challenges in understanding changes in the system since failover.
Pay-for-Use DR in the Public Cloud is in High Demand "As companies weigh the best defense options against ransomware, they should consider the benefits of using the public cloud for their DR sites. They can counter the high costs of traditional DR solutions and free their IT staff to focus on revenue-generating initiatives. The public cloud offers lower management overhead and costs along with lower risk and higher reliability in testing and executing DR plans," added Page. Nearly one in four respondents (23%) stated that their organization is not responding to DR events as effectively as it could be. The top three considerations holding organizations back from responding to DR events include: 1) the complexity of DR products and processes, 2) high associated costs and 3) lack of staff skilled in managing DR. Growing Threat of Disaster Increases DR Budgets
"It's our mission to bring enterprise-grade DR to every IT team by cutting cost and complexity with an on-demand failproof model leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS," said Page. "Today, Datrium also announced new Disaster Recovery as a Service capabilities that provide VMware users, both on premises and in the cloud, a reliable, cost-effective cloud-based disaster recovery solution with the industry's first instant Recovery Time Objective (RTO) restarts." The State of Enterprise Data Resiliency and Disaster Recovery 2019 report findings are based on a survey of 395 IT leaders from organizations with 100 employees or more that have DR plans already in place. The complete State of Enterprise Data Resiliency and Disaster Recovery 2019 is available for download at: https://go.datrium.com/report-state-of-enterprise-data-resiliency-and-disaster-recovery.html About Datrium Learn More Media Contact
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