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ESG Research Report: Data Protection Cloud Strategies
ESG Research Report
Dec 27, 2016
ESG surveyed 370 North American IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in order to explore their perspectives on and preferences for the various uses of cloud-based services as part of data protection strategies. All respondents were IT professionals familiar with and/or responsible for data protection technology decisions for their organization, specifically around those data protection and production technologies that may leverage cloud services as part of the solution.
Page Count: 34
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
Research Objectives
Research Findings
Usage Trends for Cloud-based Data Protection Services
Who Is Driving Data Protection Cloud Adoption and Usage?
Backup-as-a-service (BaaS) Usage and Considerations
For Most Organizations, Cloud Is Not a ‘Tape Killer’
BaaS Considerations for Large Data Restores
Storage-as-a-service/Data Protection Usage and Considerations
Making the Choice Between BaaS and STaaS/DP
An Important Note to Vendors Selling Offerings on Both Sides of the Decision
Protecting Servers Hosted within Infrastructure-as-a-service Offerings
Protecting Data within a SaaS Offering
Conclusion
Research Implications for Data Protection Vendors and Providers
Research Implications for IT and Data Protection Professionals
Research Methodology
Respondent Demographics
Respondents by Current Responsibility
Respondent Organizations by Total Number of Employees
Respondent Organizations by Industry
Respondent Organizations by Annual Revenue
Respondent Organizations’ Production Server Infrastructure
Respondent Organizations’ Total Amount of Disk-based Storage Capacity
ESG conducted an in-depth survey of 373 IT and data storage professionals concerning their organizations’ current data storage environments including current storage resources, challenges, purchase criteria, and forward-looking data storage plans.…