2021 Cloud Protection Trends Report

One of the most transformational modernizations of “production” IT is the utilization of cloud-based services in lieu of, or in supplement to, traditional servers within data centers.

This research report summarizes a recent global survey of 1,550 unbiased organizations across 14 countries to understand their approaches toward cloud-based production IT today – and the ramifications for their data protection strategies moving forward. This includes how they expect to be prepared for the myriad of IT challenges they face, including hybrid cloud solutions, disaster recovery initiatives, as well as SaaS and container usage.

About the research

An independent research firm was commissioned by Veeam to survey 1,550 unbiased IT decision makers respondents responsible for IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and backup in the AsiaPac, Europe, North America and South Americaregions, to assess the challenges, drivers and backup considerations among IaaS, PaaS and SaaS personas

This was conducted to better understand the market landscape of adoption trends, drivers, challenges, and protection strategies for cloud-powered production IT in 2021.

This report is presented in four sections:

1. The realities of hybrid cloud
2. Disaster recovery to cloud-hosted infrastructure
3. SaaS-based applications such as Microsoft (Office) 365
4. Containers

Hybrid is here

Approximately what percentage of your organization’s production data is protected by each of the following mechanisms? Thinking ahead two years, which of the following do you anticipate being your organization’s primary method of backing up data?