{"id":45403,"date":"2021-09-23T13:15:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commvault.com\/?p=45403"},"modified":"2022-10-25T21:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:25:27","slug":"minimizing-the-impact-of-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commvault.com\/blogs\/minimizing-the-impact-of-downtime","title":{"rendered":"Minimizing the Impact of Downtime with Reliable Data Backup and Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Data is the lifeblood of busy organizations. Worldwide data is expected to explode to 175 zettabytes by 2025, representing 61% CAGR1<\/sup>. 51% of the data is expected to be in data centers and 49% will likely be in the cloud. 90 ZB of this data will be from IoT devices in 2025. And 80% of data is predicted to be unstructured by 2025.2<\/sup>  With such exponential growth and dependency on data, the stakes of protecting mission-critical data have never been higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need to build resilience to avoid downtime<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizations today are being digitally disrupted almost daily. Rising cybersecurity threats. Unpredictable natural disasters. Power outages. Equipment failure. You name it. Data backup and recovery safeguards critical data, applications and systems from permanent loss that can cause major business disruptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a busy \u201cas-a-service\u201d managed security provider serving customers nationwide, our teams at Magna5<\/a> regularly tell our customers to be prepared for the unexpected. Recently, one of our customers, a multi-state supplier of technical motion and control systems and industrial lubrication solutions, was a victim of a ransomware attack. Fortunately, they were able to bounce back quickly. We were providing VMware image-based backups with off-site replication leveraging Commvault software. As a result, we recovered multiple Windows systems, including web servers and Microsoft SQL servers, on our hosting platform located in our secure Iron Mountain datacenters. The customer also had an offsite air-gapped copy of their data that allowed them to fully recover and resume business operations after the ransomware attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many organizations are not so fortunate. Research shows a business will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds in 2021.3<\/sup> The average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million.4<\/sup> Roughly 40-60% of midsize businesses never reopen after a disaster.[add source citation]  Even more eye opening \u2026 90% of businesses that experience a disaster and do not resume operations in five days go out of business within the first year.5<\/sup> With regular data backup, organizations can ensure data security and business continuity in the event of data loss. To bounce back quickly in the event of a disaster, a fully managed backup-as-a-service strategy makes a lot of sense to avoid downtime when catastrophe occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What questions should you be asking when determining the right Backup-as-a-Service for your organization?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n