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Page 1: Best Practices in Cloud-Powered Data Protection

Best Practices in Cloud-Powered

Data Protection

Jason Buffington

Principal Analyst for

Data Protection

ESG

Russ Kerscher

Sr. Manager, Global

Product Marketing

Veeam Software

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Enterprise Strategy Group | Getting to the bigger truth.™

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Veeam Webinar – October 2016

Best Practices in Cloud-Powered Data Protection

Jason Buffington, @JBuff

Principal Analyst for Data Protection

[email protected]

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About ESG• IT analyst, research, and

strategy company

• Founded in 1999 with offices in Boston and Silicon Valley

• Conducts research with/for IT vendors, IT pros, business pros, and channel partners

ESG analyst coverage:

• Analytics• App dev & deployment• Cloud computing• Cybersecurity• Data protection• Data management • Enterprise mobility• Networking • Storage

ESG capabilities include:

• Analyst services• Market research• Technical performance testing• Economic validation• Channel Acceleration• Strategic Consulting• Custom content, including

written and digital assets

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The Spectrum of Data Protection … and Data Management

Backups Snapshots ReplicationArchivingDisasterRecovery

BusinessContinuityAvailability

Proactive Productivity(USER)Reactive Recovery

(INFRASTRUCTURE)

eDiscovery& Compliance

Information Governance(DATA)

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Seven Convergence Points of “Data Protection” and “Cloud Services”

DRaaS

Disaster Recovery

as-a-Service

DP of SaaS

Protecting

Softwareas-a-Service

M(oB)aaS

Managementof Backups

as-a-Service

BaaS

Backupas-a-Service

STaaS/dp

Storageas-a-Service

for Data Protection

DP of IaaS

Protecting

Infrastructureas-a-Service

Protecting Data IN a CloudProtecting Data TO a Cloud

AaaS

Archiveas-a-Service

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Seven Convergence Points of “Data Protection” and “Cloud Services”

DRaaS

Disaster Recovery

as-a-Service

BaaS

Backupas-a-Service

STaaS/dp

Storageas-a-Service

for Data Protection

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Agenda of Topics to be Covered

• Why does Cloud-Powered Data Protection make sense for so many?

• Q: Is Cloud a “Tape Killer?” A: not yet

• Choose your Cloud-Powered Solution

• Storage-as-a-Service used for Data Protection (STaaS/dp)

• Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS)

• Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

• Concluding Remarks and Recommendations

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Why does cloud-powered Data Protection make sense for so many?

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Top 10 IT Priorities for 2016

18%

19%

20%

20%

20%

20%

21%

22%

23%

37%

Business continuity/disaster recovery programs

Improving collaboration capabilities

Desktop virtualization

Increasing use of server virtualization

Major application deployments or upgrades

Improving data backup and recovery

Data integration

Managing data growth

Business intelligence/data analytics initiatives

Cybersecurity initiatives

Top 10 most important IT priorities over the next 12 months. (Percent of respondents, N=633, ten responses accepted)

Source: ESG Research Report, 2016 IT Spending Intentions Survey, February 2016.

Each of these IT transformations is pointing

some folks to “Cloud”

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Business Initiatives Driving IT Spending in 2016

18%

19%

20%

20%

20%

22%

27%

32%

38%

43%

Research and development

Increased use of social media technology for marketing, customer outreach, brandawareness, market research, etc.

Improved internal collaboration capabilities

Business growth via mergers, acquisitions, or organic expansion

Developing strategies to ensure we interact with our customers on their mobiledevices

Providing our employees with the mobile devices and applications they need tomaximize productivity

Ensuring regulatory compliance

Improved data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight

Reducing costs

Increasing cybersecurity

Which of the following business initiatives do you believe will drive the most technology spending in your organization over the next 12 months? (Percent of respondents, N=633, five responses accepted)

Source: ESG Research Report, 2016 IT Spending Intentions Survey, February 2016.

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2016 Cost Containment Measures

10%

13%

18%

18%

20%

22%

23%

27%

30%

32%

None of the above

Cancel projects

Reduce headcount

Postpone projects

Reduce number of vendors we work with

Freeze hiring

Increase IT outsourcing

Renegotiate contracts

Purchase new technologies with improved ROI

Increase use of cloud computing services as alternative to in-house applicationsand/or infrastructure

Which of the following measures – if any – is your organization taking to reduce or otherwise contain IT expenditures over the next 12 months? (Percent of respondents, N=633, multiple responses accepted)

“Slow Down”

“Do IT Smarter”

Source: ESG Research Report, 2016 IT Spending Intentions Survey, February 2016.

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Cloud Infrastructure Use Cases

19%

25%

26%

26%

29%

29%

30%

30%

31%

36%

46%

Additional resource to accommodate spikes in workload

Application bursting (i.e., scaling internal applications by extending them to cloud-basedcompute resources)

Use as temporary compute resources for time-limited projects

Use for high performance and/or scientific computing applications that require a lot ofCPU and/or storage resources

Business intelligence/analytics

Test and development

Run internally/externally-facing Web servers (i.e., basic HTTP server)

Primary storage for files

Run internal production applications

Disaster recovery

Data backup and archive

For which of the following purposes does/did your organization use cloud infrastructure services? (Percent of respondents, N=319, multiple responses accepted)

Source: ESG Research Report, 2016 IT Spending Intentions Survey, February 2016.

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Cloud-based Data Protection Deployment Drivers

6%

8%

12%

13%

15%

16%

17%

21%

22%

26%

28%

28%

41%

General mandate to start using cloud services more pervasively

Will facilitate chargeback to internal business units

Ability to offload regulatory compliance requirements to a service provider

Better management/reporting capabilities

Service(s) allows/will allow us to take advantage of advanced technology

Predictable costs

Will improve support for remote office/branch office locations

Will improve service levels

Will free up IT staff to support more strategic on-premises systems and/or applications

Potential to eliminate or reduce on-premises backup hardware and software resources

Better recovery capabilities

Believe it will be more cost-effective than in-house solutions and processes

Ability to store data remotely for disaster recovery

Which of the following factors were–or are–the biggest drivers behind your organization’s consideration of cloud-based data protection services? (Percent of respondents, N=316, three responses accepted)

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Factors Preventing Organization from Using Cloud-based Data Protection Services More Pervasively: Current Users vs. Non-Users

8%

10%

12%

12%

13%

13%

13%

13%

15%

16%

17%

17%

18%

19%

19%

20%

24%

35%

8%

7%

8%

8%

4%

18%

17%

13%

18%

31%

13%

16%

16%

23%

11%

20%

25%

46%

Lack of service monitoring and measuring tools

Lack of vendors providing an “enterprise-class”

Good relationship with existing data protection vendor(s)

Organizational complexity

Interoperability issues

Too much invested in current on-premises data protection infrastructure and staff

Lack of approved or identified corporate cloud strategy

Lack of appropriate security tools

Performance concerns during backups

Too expensive / not as cost-effective as presumed

Lack of cloud skills/expertise/training across IT

Data sovereignty/location concerns

Network connectivity and costs

Data availability/recovery concerns

Concerned that IT staff would be giving up too much control to vendor/cloud providers

Speed of recovery, particularly for large data sets

Regulatory compliance/audit concerns

Data security/privacy concerns

Factors preventing organizations from using cloud-based data protection services more pervasively: current users vs. non-users. (Percent of respondents, multiple responses accepted)

Non-users of cloud-baseddata protection services(N=158)

Current cloud-based dataprotection users (N=212)

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Considerations of Economics

Objection >

Motivator >

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Factors Preventing Organization from Using Cloud-based Data Protection Services More Pervasively: Current Users vs. Non-Users

8%

10%

12%

12%

13%

13%

13%

13%

15%

16%

17%

17%

18%

19%

19%

20%

24%

35%

8%

7%

8%

8%

4%

18%

17%

13%

18%

31%

13%

16%

16%

23%

11%

20%

25%

46%

Lack of service monitoring and measuring tools

Lack of vendors providing an “enterprise-class”

Good relationship with existing data protection vendor(s)

Organizational complexity

Interoperability issues

Too much invested in current on-premises data protection infrastructure and staff

Lack of approved or identified corporate cloud strategy

Lack of appropriate security tools

Performance concerns during backups

Too expensive / not as cost-effective as presumed

Lack of cloud skills/expertise/training across IT

Data sovereignty/location concerns

Network connectivity and costs

Data availability/recovery concerns

Concerned that IT staff would be giving up too much control to vendor/cloud providers

Speed of recovery, particularly for large data sets

Regulatory compliance/audit concerns

Data security/privacy concerns

Factors preventing organizations from using cloud-based data protection services more pervasively: current users vs. non-users. (Percent of respondents, multiple responses accepted)

Non-users of cloud-baseddata protection services(N=158)

Current cloud-based dataprotection users (N=212)

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Factors Preventing Organization from Using Cloud-based Data Protection Services More Pervasively: Current Users vs. Non-Users

8%

10%

12%

12%

13%

13%

13%

13%

15%

16%

17%

17%

18%

19%

19%

20%

24%

35%

8%

7%

8%

8%

4%

18%

17%

13%

18%

31%

13%

16%

16%

23%

11%

20%

25%

46%

Lack of service monitoring and measuring tools

Lack of vendors providing an “enterprise-class”

Good relationship with existing data protection vendor(s)

Organizational complexity

Interoperability issues

Too much invested in current on-premises data protection infrastructure and staff

Lack of approved or identified corporate cloud strategy

Lack of appropriate security tools

Performance concerns during backups

Too expensive / not as cost-effective as presumed

Lack of cloud skills/expertise/training across IT

Data sovereignty/location concerns

Network connectivity and costs

Data availability/recovery concerns

Concerned that IT staff would be giving up too much control to vendor/cloud providers

Speed of recovery, particularly for large data sets

Regulatory compliance/audit concerns

Data security/privacy concerns

Factors preventing organizations from using cloud-based data protection services more pervasively: current users vs. non-users. (Percent of respondents, multiple responses accepted)

Non-users of cloud-baseddata protection services(N=158)

Current cloud-based dataprotection users (N=212)

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Realized Benefits of Cloud-based Data Protection Services

1%

3%

27%

30%

31%

33%

34%

34%

36%

36%

37%

38%

40%

41%

42%

49%

1%

3%

5%

2%

4%

9%

3%

4%

6%

3%

8%

7%

8%

8%

13%

15%

Don’t know

We have not realized any benefits from cloud-based data protection services

Streamlined application development, testing, and deployment process

Reduced need for internal training for IT staff when new technology is deployed

Re-purposed IT personnel to more strategic on-premises systems and/or applications

Improved service and support compared to traditional software vendors

Reduced or eliminated on-premises data protection software licensing costs

Improved compliance

Reduced or eliminated on-premises support contract costs

Reduced power and cooling costs

Reduced backup and restore windows

Reduced complexity within our IT environment

Reduced or eliminated on-premises data protection hardware infrastructure costs

Reduced IT personnel costs

Improved security

Improved recoverability and reliability of backups

What benefits – if any – has your organization realized as the result of using cloud-based data protection services? Which is the primary benefit? (Percent of respondents, N=212)

Primary benefitrealized from cloud-based data protectionservices

All benefits realizedfrom cloud-baseddata protectionservices

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Realized Benefits of Cloud-based Data Protection Services

1%

3%

27%

30%

31%

33%

34%

34%

36%

36%

37%

38%

40%

41%

42%

49%

1%

3%

5%

2%

4%

9%

3%

4%

6%

3%

8%

7%

8%

8%

13%

15%

Don’t know

We have not realized any benefits from cloud-based data protection services

Streamlined application development, testing, and deployment process

Reduced need for internal training for IT staff when new technology is deployed

Re-purposed IT personnel to more strategic on-premises systems and/or applications

Improved service and support compared to traditional software vendors

Reduced or eliminated on-premises data protection software licensing costs

Improved compliance

Reduced or eliminated on-premises support contract costs

Reduced power and cooling costs

Reduced backup and restore windows

Reduced complexity within our IT environment

Reduced or eliminated on-premises data protection hardware infrastructure costs

Reduced IT personnel costs

Improved security

Improved recoverability and reliability of backups

What benefits – if any – has your organization realized as the result of using cloud-based data protection services? Which is the primary benefit? (Percent of respondents, N=212)

Primary benefitrealized from cloud-based data protectionservices

All benefits realizedfrom cloud-baseddata protectionservices

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Considerations of Security

Objection >

Experience >

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Is Cloud a “Tape Killer” ?Not yet

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The “Status Quo” for backup media in 2015

Data is backed up to onsite disk storage with no offsite

copy (D2D); 14%

Data is backed up to onsite tape storage with no offsite

copy (D2T); 6%

Data is initially backed up to onsite disk storage and a copy is sent off site via

removable media (i.e., tape) (D2D2T); 26%

Data is initially backed up to onsite tape storage and a

copy is sent off site via removable media (i.e., tape)

(D2T2T); 17%

Data is initially backed up to onsite disk storage and a

copy is sent over the WAN to offsite disk (D2D2WAN); 11%

Data is initially backed up to onsite disk storage and a

copy is then sent to a cloud storage service provider

(D2D2C); 16%

Data is backed up over the WAN directly to a secondary corporate site

such as a headquarters location or other corporate data center (no onsite storage of backup data) (D2WAN); 6%

Data is backed up over the WAN to a cloud service

provider (no onsite storage of backup data) (D2C); 4%

Don’t know; 1%

Thinking about your organization’s environment today, which of the following best describes how the data backup process is generally managed? (Percent of respondents, N=375)

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Data Backup Process: 2012 vs. 2015 vs. 2017

*Source: ESG Research Report, Trends in Data Protection Modernization, August 2012

15%

10%

31%

15% 15%

5%7%

2%0%

14%

6%

26%

17%

11%

16%

6%4%

1%

13%

7%

24%

14%12%

16%

5% 6%

3%

Data is backed up toonsite disk storagewith no offsite copy

(D2D)

Data is backed up toonsite tape storagewith no offsite copy

(D2T)

Data is initially backedup to onsite disk

storage and a copy issent off site via

removable media (i.e.,tape) (D2D2T)

Data is initially backedup to onsite tape

storage and a copy issent off site via

removable media (i.e.,tape) (D2T2T)

Data is initially backedup to onsite disk

storage and a copy issent over the WAN to

offsite disk(D2D2WAN)

Data is initially backedup to onsite disk

storage and a copy isthen sent to a cloud

storage serviceprovider (D2D2C)

Data is backed up overthe WAN directly to asecondary corporate

site such as aheadquarters location

or other corporatedata center (no onsite

storage of backupdata) (D2WAN)

Data is backed up overthe WAN to a cloudservice provider (no

onsite storage ofbackup data) (D2C)

Don’t know

How the data backup process is generally managed 2012 vs. 2015. vs. 2017. (Percent of respondents)

*2012 (N=330) 2015 (N=375) 2017 (N=375)

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Data Backup Process: 2012 vs. 2015 vs. 2017

*Source: ESG Research Report, Trends in Data Protection Modernization, August 2012

15%

10%

31%

15% 15%

5%7%

2%0%

14%

6%

26%

17%

11%

16%

6%4%

1%

13%

7%

24%

14%12%

16%

5% 6%

3%

Data is backed up toonsite disk storagewith no offsite copy

(D2D)

Data is backed up toonsite tape storagewith no offsite copy

(D2T)

Data is initially backedup to onsite disk

storage and a copy issent off site via

removable media (i.e.,tape) (D2D2T)

Data is initially backedup to onsite tape

storage and a copy issent off site via

removable media (i.e.,tape) (D2T2T)

Data is initially backedup to onsite disk

storage and a copy issent over the WAN to

offsite disk(D2D2WAN)

Data is initially backedup to onsite disk

storage and a copy isthen sent to a cloud

storage serviceprovider (D2D2C)

Data is backed up overthe WAN directly to asecondary corporate

site such as aheadquarters location

or other corporatedata center (no onsite

storage of backupdata) (D2WAN)

Data is backed up overthe WAN to a cloudservice provider (no

onsite storage ofbackup data) (D2C)

Don’t know

How the data backup process is generally managed 2012 vs. 2015. vs. 2017. (Percent of respondents)

*2012 (N=330) 2015 (N=375) 2017 (N=375)

2012 = 56%2017 = 45%

TAPE CLOUD2012 = 7%2017 = 23%

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Length of Time Current BaaS Users Plan to Store Data Within a BaaS Service, by Maximum Length of Time Backup Data is Retained

8%

19%

37%

15% 15%

1%

6%

16%

12%14%

12%

22% 23%

1%

Up to 90 days Up to 1 year 1 – 3 years 4 – 5 years 6 – 10 years More than 10 years Don’t know

Length of time organizations intend to store data within a cloud-based backup service vs. maximum length of time that backup data is retained. (Percent of respondents)

Length of time organizations intend to store data within a cloud-based backup service (N=370)

Maximum length of time that backup data is retained (N=143) Cloud is not yet being planned for for truly Long Term Data Retention

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Frequency of Making Copies of Data for the Workloads Currently Protected by BaaS Service

17%

10%

19%

23%

12%

17%

1%

Continuous orsynchronous data

protection

Every 15 minutes Up to once per hour Every 2 to 4 hours Every 5 to 12 hours Daily or less Don’t know

Generally speaking, please indicate the frequency with which your organization makes copies of the data for the applications and workloads protected by its cloud-based backup solution.

(Percent of respondents, N=143)

Extrapolated average = 2.0 hoursby those doing ‘better-than-nightly’

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CLOUDTAPE

DISK

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Choose your Cloud-Powered SolutionSTaaS/dp … BaaS … DRaaS

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Seven Convergence Points of “Data Protection” and “Cloud Services”

DRaaS

Disaster Recovery

as-a-Service

BaaS

Backupas-a-Service

STaaS/dp

Storageas-a-Service

for Data Protection

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Use of Cloud-based Data Protection Services

25%

39%

39%

23%

17%

18%

24%

20%

22%

27%

24%

19%

1%

1%

1%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

STaaS/DP (i.e., using cloud-based capacity to store backup copies offsite, also known as disk-to-disk-to-cloud or D2D2C)

Backup-as-a-service (BaaS)

Disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS)

Please indicate your organization’s usage of or plans for each of the following cloud-based data protection services. (Percent of respondents, N=370)

Currently use Do not currently use but we plan to within the next 12 months

No use or plans at this time but we are interested No use, plans, or interest at this time

Don’t know

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Your SLAs will require local recovery first

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Most Important Characteristics of a BaaS Solution

7%

7%

8%

9%

12%

13%

13%

14%

15%

16%

18%

26%

26%

29%

30%

Role-based access or management for IT and workload/platform admins

Licensing based on cloud storage consumed (per TB)

Licensing based on number of applications or systems protected

Licensing based on amount of production data (per TB) protected

Global deduplication across protected devices

Service terms

Ability to have different RPOs and RTOs for different applications and workloads

Protection of specific applications or workloads

Frequency of backups (RPO)

Ability to do on-premises backup/recovery prior to going to cloud service

Flexibility in selecting a cloud-repository vendor or locale

Ability to recover/failover in the cloud

Security/encryption with key management

Recovery options

Speed of recovery (RTO)

What are the most important characteristics or considerations of a BaaS solution? (Percent of respondents, N=280, three responses accepted)

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Downtime Tolerance for Applications Protected by BaaS Services

10%

20%

22%21%

13%

10%

3%

1%

No downtimeever

Up to 15 minutesof downtime

Up to 30 minutesof downtime

Up to 1 hour ofdowntime

1 to 2 hours ofdowntime

3 to 4 hours ofdowntime

More than 4hours of

downtime

Don’t know

On average, what is your organization’s RTO (i.e., downtime tolerance) for the applications and workloads it protects – or expects to protect – with its cloud-based backup services (i.e., BaaS)? (Percent

of respondents, N=280)

Extrapolated average = 49 minutes

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Number of Times Current BaaS Users Had to Recover Data from a BaaS Service Provider Within the Last Year

18%

25%

15%

1%

38%

3%

1 2 3 More than 3 We have not had torecover BaaS-based

backup data

Don’t know

How many times within the last year has your organization had to recover (i.e., more than just a single file) data from its BaaS service provider? (Percent of respondents, N=143)

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How Current BaaS Provider Facilitates Bulk Restores

The service includes an on-premises caching appliance

or local backup for faster restores; 38%

The service provides an appliance that we can power

up and use to access our data; 27%

The service provides a hard drive with a copy of our data;

24%

Our BaaS service provider does not enable bulk

restores; 7%

Don’t know; 5%

How does your organization’s BaaS service provider facilitate bulk restores of large amounts of data? (Percent of respondents, N=143)

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Primary Factor Leading Organization to Choose BaaS Instead of Adding Storage to Existing On-Premises Backup Solution

BaaS has a lower overall cost of ownership in the long-run over

my existing backup solution; 20%

BaaS reduces on-premises backup hardware and software

requirements; 20%

BaaS allows us to re-purpose IT staff to focus on other more

strategic activities; 15%

BaaS is more reliable than my existing on-premises backup

solution(s); 12%

BaaS has a more compelling economic model (OpEx vs.

CapEx) than my existing backup solution; 12%

Previous backup solution needed replacing anyway; 10%

BaaS protects workloads that my existing on-premises backup

solution(s) doesn’t; 8%

Don't know; 3%

What is the primary factor that would lead–or has led–your organization to choose BaaS instead of adding cloud-based storage capacity to an existing on-premises backup solution (i.e., STaaS)? (Percent of respondents, N=280)

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Primary Factor Driving STaaS/DP instead of a BaaS Solution

Adding cloud storage to my existing solution will cost me less than changing to a BaaS

service; 32%

Satisfied with my existing backup solution and simply

want to extend it to the cloud; 31%

Too much invested in my existing backup solution

hardware and software; 26%

We don’t want to learn a new backup UI, recreate jobs or

install agents again; 9%

Don’t know; 2%

What is the primary factor that would lead – or has led – your organization to add cloud storage to an existing on-premises backup solution (i.e., STaaS/DP) instead of a BaaS solution? (Percent of respondents,

N=264)

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Why BaaS when you can DRaaS?

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Why BaaS when you can DRaaS?

DRaaS Recovery

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Current Use of DRaaS to Protect Servers and/or VMs

Yes; 48%

No, but we plan to use DRaaS within the next 12

months; 12%

No, but we are interested in DRaaS; 28%

No, and we have no plans for DRaaS; 9%

Don’t know; 4%

Is your organization currently using disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) to protect any of its servers and/or virtual machines (VMs)? (Percent of respondents, N=391)

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Realized Benefits of DRaaS

1%

20%

21%

22%

22%

25%

25%

26%

26%

27%

28%

31%

34%

35%

37%

39%

We have not realized any benefits from cloud-based BC/DR services

Reduced need for internal training for IT staff when new technology is deployed

Reduced onsite support contract costs

Increased control over software that is managed in IT organization

Reduced onsite data protection software licensing costs

Reduced power and cooling costs

Reduced complexity within our IT environment

Reduced onsite data protection hardware infrastructure costs

Streamlined application development, testing, and deployment process

Reduced IT personnel costs

Reduced need for change management when new technology is deployed

Improved service and support compared to traditional software vendors

Improved compliance

Re-purposed IT personnel to more strategic onsite systems and/or applications

Improved security

Improved recovery performance (RTO)

As a current user of DRaaS, what benefits – if any – has your organization realized as the result of using cloud-based BC/DR services? (Percent of respondents, N=187, multiple responses accepted)

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Percent of Servers or VMs Currently – or Likely to be –Protected by Cloud-based DR Service

1%

6%

19%

28%

19%

13% 13%

1%

Less than 5% oftotal servers/VMs

5% to 10% of totalservers/ VMs

11% to 20% oftotal servers/ VMs

21% to 30% oftotal servers/ VMs

31% to 40% oftotal servers/ VMs

41% to 50% oftotal servers/ VMs

More than 50% oftotal servers/ VMs

Don’t know

Approximately what percentage of your organization’s total servers or virtual machines would you estimate is currently – or likely will be – protected to a cloud-based disaster recovery service?

(Percent of respondents, N=342)

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Factors Driving Consideration of Cloud-based BC/DR Services

20%

22%

26%

27%

28%

31%

33%

35%

38%

40%

Will facilitate chargeback to internal business units

Ability to offload regulatory compliance requirements to a service provider

Better management/reporting capabilities

Service(s) will allow us to take advantage of advanced technology

Will improve support for remote office/branch office locations

Predictable costs (i.e., simpler budgeting)

Believe it will be more cost-effective than in-house solutions and processes

Ability to eliminate onsite backup hardware and software

Ability to store data remotely for disaster recovery

Will improve service levels (i.e., recovery times)

Which of the following factors is driving your organization to consider cloud-based BC/DR services? (Percent of respondents, N=142, multiple responses accepted)

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Most Important Criteria of DRaaS Provider (planned/interested DRaaS adopters)

Cost; 20%

Hybrid flexibility (i.e., option for both local and off-site recovery); 13%

Proven security controls; 12%

Cloud flexibility (i.e., purpose-built DR cloud or

public cloud); 12%

Ability to do testing for preparedness/compliance;

11%

Can meet our RPO/RTO service level requirements;

9%

Reputation and longevity in the market; 7%

Provides more than one “as a service” offering; 6%

Easy to upgrade as our data needs grow; 6%

Predictable billing; 5%

If your organization were to utilize a DRaaS provider, what criteria would be most important? (Percent of respondents, N=142, one response accepted)

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Conclusions and Recommendations

• Cloud ought to be part of your Data Protection strategy, period!

• There isn’t a single “best” cloud option; yours need to align with your recovery goals

• Ps, regardless of however you utilize cloud-services, Veeam has a role to play.

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