Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success
As
businesses
digitally
transform
and
leverage
technology
such
as
artificial
intelligence,
the
volume
of
data
they
rely
on
is
increasing
at
an
unprecedented
pace.
As
businesses
digitally
transform
and
leverage
technology
such
as
artificial
intelligence,
the
volume
of
data
they
rely
on
is
increasing
at
an
unprecedented
pace.
Analysts
IDC[1]
predict
that
the
amount
of
global
data
will
more
than
double
between
now
and
2026.
Meanwhile,
Foundry’s
Digital
Business
Research
shows
38%
of
organizations
surveyed
are
increasing
spend
on
Big
Data
projects.
While
these
developments
present
exciting
opportunities,
it’s
vital
businesses
also
ensure
they
have
a
robust
resiliency
strategy
in
place.
According
to
the
2023
Veeam
Data
Protection
Trends
Report,
85%
of
respondents
said
they
had
been
hit
with
ransomware
attacks
at
least
once
in
2022.
Even
worse,
one-third
of
companies
that
paid
the
ransom
still
didn’t
get
their
data
back,
and
the
average
downtime
for
ransomware
victims
was
two
weeks.
This
data
doesn’t
even
take into
account
other
threats
to
business
continuity,
ranging
from
natural
disasters
to
the
accidental
deletion
of
data.
And
in
a
troubling
new
trend,
backup
repositories
have
become the
primary
target
for
ransomware
attacks,
with
backups
targeted
in
94%
of
attacks,
and
at
least
a
portion
of
backup
repositories
impacted
in
68%
of
cyber
events,
according
to
the
2022 Veeam
Ransomware
Report.
Irrespective
of
where
data
lives
–
public
cloud,
at
the
edge,
or
on-premises
–
secure
backup
and
recovery
is
essential
to
any
enterprise
security
strategy.
Best
practices
for
backup
and
restore
Roy
Adiel,
Cloud
Solutions
Architect
at
Veeam,
advises,
“For
IT
leaders
and
CEOs,
what
they
need
to
do
in
order
to
ensure
business
continuity
and
protect
themselves
is
to
make
sure
they
have
established
a
well-defined
backup
procedure
that
gives
them
not
only
the
ability
to
back
up
their
data,
but
also
to
assure
how
and
where
they
restore
that
data.”
So,
what
must
IT
leaders
consider?
The
first
step
is
to
establish
data
protection
policies
that
include
encryption
and
least
privilege
access
permissions.
Businesses
should
then
ensure
they
have
three
copies
of
their
data
–
the
production
copy
already
exists
and
is
effectively
the
first
copy.
The
second
copy
should
be
stored
on
a
different
media
type,
not
necessarily
in
a
different
physical
location
(the
logic
behind
it
is
to
not
store
your
production
and
backup
data
in
the
same
storage
device).
The
third
copy
could
or
should
be
an
offsite
copy
that
is
also
offline,
air-gapped,
or
immutable
(Amazon
S3
with
Object
Lock
is
one
example).
Organizations
also
need
to
make
sure
they
have
a centralized
view
of
data
protection
across
all
environments
for
greater
management,
monitoring
and
governance,
and
they
need
orchestration
tools
to
help
automate
data
recovery.
Finally,
organizations
should
conduct
frequent
backup
and
recovery
testing
to
make
sure
that
everything
works
as
it
should.
How
Hudson
Bay
Company
met
its
data
backup
challenge
Iconic
retailer
Hudson
Bay
Company
(HBC)
was
transitioning
from
on-premises
data
centers
to
a
multi-cloud
architecture
as
part
of
its
digital
transformation
efforts,
when
it
discovered
that
its
legacy
backup
systems
showed
signs
of
failing.
Matthew
Pick,
Senior
Director
of
Cloud
Architecture
at
HBC,
said:
“We
needed
one
flexible,
powerful
and
scalable
solution
to
protect
every
workload
everywhere.”
HBC
selected
Veeam
to
provide
a
single
platform
that
simplifies
and
centralizes
data
protection
across
the
multicloud
environment.
Veeam
helps
HBC
ensure
business
continuity,
meet
internal
compliance
requirements
and
protect
against
ransomware. In
addition,
the
Veeam
solution
saves
HBC
$1
million
in
one-time
CAPEX
and
$600,000
in
recurring
OPEX
annually.
Find
out
more
on
the
Veeam
website.
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