We recently surveyed more than 200 IT professionals to understand their backup strategy of today and their plans for tomorrow. As you struggle to lower costs, reduce maintenance requirements and minimize the manpower necessary to maintain backup, look at this graphic to see what your peers are doing.

1. 10 THINGS YOU NEED
TO KNOW ABOUT
BUSINESS
DATA BACKUP
BACKUP BENCHMARKS:
DISASTER RECOVERY
REDUNDANCY
RECOVERY TIME AFTER A SITE DISASTER
59%
63%
Store backups
in only one
location
29%
Take days to
recover
4 days and more
ABLE TO RECOVER FROM A SITE DISASTER
IN FOUR HOURS OR LESS
9%
of non-cloud
storage users
20%
of cloud storage
users
BACKUP BENCHMARKS:
FAILURE
52%
EXPERIENCE MULTIPLE
BACKUP FAILURES A YEAR
TOP FIVE REASONS BACKUPS FAIL:
CONNECTIVITY
ISSUES
EQUIPMENT
FAILURE
FILE
CORRUPTION
BACKUP
SOFTWARE FAILURE
HUMAN
ERROR
25%
21%
18%
14%
12%
BACKUP BENCHMARKS:
MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE
BACKUP DATA VOLUME COMPARED TO LAST YEAR:
75%
BACKUP DATA
VOLUME INCREASED
21%
BACKUP DATA VOLUME
INCREASED BY 2X OR MORE
50% OF ORGANIZATIONS
SPEND OVER 5 HOURS A MONTH
ON BACKUPS
22%
BACKUP DATA VOLUME
STAYED THE SAME
3%
BACKUP DATA
VOLUME SHRUNK
51% OF INDIVIDUAL
APPLICATIONS ARE NOT
BACKED UP DAILY
50%
51%
14%
14% SPEND OVER 20 HOURS
PLAN TO MAKE CHANGES
TO BACKUP STRATEGY
THE TOP PLANNED
CHANGE IS
51%
INCORPORATING
CLOUD STORAGE
SOURCES: All statistics collected from a survey of 209
respondents, all from a commissioned audience sample
To read the full report, visit http://www.twinstrata.com/backup-survey-2014