Zerto, an industry leader for IT resilience,
today announced the full findings of the IDC White Paper, sponsored by
Zerto, State of IT Resilience. The study revealed
that over 90% of respondents do not consider their organization to be IT
resilient and nearly
half have suffered an unrecoverable data event in the last three years.
While the majority of businesses surveyed have a
cloud, digital transformation or modernization project already planned for the
next two years, these same businesses rate themselves as immature on resilience
objectives. This gap highlights the current demands on IT teams who are being
tasked with cloud and modernization projects even as they struggle to keep pace
with basic protection and recovery. Additionally, 77% of those surveyed have
suffered organizational impact from a tech-related business disruption in the
past two years. The survey results validate that only with resilient operations
can businesses mitigate the risk of downtime and focus on projects that drive
transformation.
Key findings from the research include:
Significant gaps revealed between desired and existing
state of operations
Ninety percent of organizations think data protection
is important or critical for digital and/or IT transformation projects, yet the
technological provisions are not in place to provide this level of data
protection assurance.
- Only 7%
rate themselves as mature for business resilience.
- Nearly
half - 49% - have suffered an unrecoverable data event in the last three
years.
Ensuring that the entire IT infrastructure is
resilient will be critical for business success and for completion of
transformation, modernization and cloud projects.
Businesses are putting themselves at risk
For organizations that experienced technology-related
disruptions in the last two years, the consequences were significant.
- Ninety-three percent have experienced a
technology-related business disruption in the past two years.
- Of these disruptions, 77% suffered some
organizational impact.
- Seventy-nine percent lost money either directly or
through paying for additional recovery expertise.
- Twenty percent permanently lost customers as a result
of the disruption.
This risk is only going to become larger as disasters
encompass broader categories of disruption, including malicious attacks.
- Seventy-seven
percent have experienced a malicious attack in the past 12 months.
- Of this
group, 89% have succumbed to an attack with 39% having suffered five or more
data corrupting events.
IT resilience spending and training will increase
IT resilience needs to be a key strategic priority for
any forward-thinking organization and data protection needs to be top of mind
for organizations in this resilience effort.
- More than 55% of businesses expect the complexity of
data protection to increase, and having multiple tools only enhances this
complexity.
- To meet this growing complexity, 85% plan to hire
and/or train more staff, and 94% expect to spend more on IT resilience in the
next 24 months.
- Cloud was also highlighted as an essential part of IT
resilience, as cloud-based data protection was the highest-rated IT initiative
over the next 12 months.
For more insights from the IDC White Paper, State
of IT Resilience study read the full paper here.
"From this research, it's clear - and concerning -
that many organizations do not have the right technology to protect themselves
in the evolving current digital era. The rapidly growing data protection
concerns, as well as succeeding as an always-on business, are two factors that
are driving a new approach to IT and business resilience. From my experience,
simply buying another product to fix the issue only creates more problems and
still leaves the business vulnerable to technology disruptions and malicious
attacks in the near future. As a CIO myself, I advise IT teams to focus on
simplifying their technology portfolio, searching out converged solutions that
can manage their entire IT resilience operation - cloud mobility, backup and
disaster recovery - from a single viewpoint." -
Avi Raichel, CIO, Zerto
"The study revealed much lower levels of IT and
business resilience than anticipated. Across the industry, we are seeing the
approach to data protection evolving from individual backup, disaster recovery
and mobility solutions into a more unified approach, to ensure data is
protected comprehensively, anywhere, at all times. In the multi-cloud era, this
combined approach will be integral to raising the maturity of resilience
technology in businesses, and protecting organizations from the many
significant risks of disruption." - Phil Goodwin, Research Director, IDC