Veeam Software presenterar idag resultaten från sin årliga
undersökning <i>Virtualization Data
Protection Report</i> där 500 IT-chefer från Europa och USA har deltagit. Undersökningen
utförs för tredje året och fokus ligger på att studera virtualiseringens
påverkan på säkerhetskopiering och återläggning.

Några intressanta siffror från undersökningen:

• Virtuella serverar är något snabbare än fysiska
  servrar på att återhämta information, fem respektive sex timmar. Intressant nog
  så är det långsammare än när motsvarande undersökning gjordes 2011. Då uppgav
  respondenterna att det tog fyra respektive fem timmar.
• Varje timme en verksamhet ligger nere uppskattas
  kosta 2,2 miljoner kronor och med dagens tidsåtgång för återläggning av data handlar
  det om i snitt nära 11 miljoner kronor per incident.
• Av de tillfrågade CIO anser 88 procent att de
  har olika typer av problem med säkerhetskopieringen och 84 procent uppger att
  te har problem med komplexitet. Dessutom anser 87 procent att det är en för hög
  kostnad idag.

Nedan kan du läsa hela pressmeddelandet på engelska.
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<b>CIO Survey
Reveals Weaknesses in Virtualization Data Protection</b>

<i>Veeam’s Virtualization Data Protection Report
2013 Shows Capability, Complexity and Cost Issues Hampering IT Departments</i>

Veeam Software, innovative provider
of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware
vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced the results of its annual
Virtualization Data Protection Report. This report is Veeam’s third study into
the impact of virtualization on data protection, backup and recovery
strategies. The independent survey of 500 Chief Information Officers (CIOs)
across the USA and Europe found that enterprises are still not experiencing the
full benefits that virtualization brings to data protection, with capabilities,
complexity and cost all affecting implementations. Indeed, in a number of areas
enterprises’ data protection capabilities have actually diminished since the
last report in late 2011.

Key
findings:
68% of CIOs feel that their backup and recovery tools will become less effective as
the amount of data and servers in their organization grows.

Recovery
of virtual servers is only a little faster than that of physical servers, at 5
and 6 hours respectively. This is actually worse than in 2011, when recovery
took 4 and 5 hours.

Every
hour of downtime costs an enterprise $324,793: meaning that downtime is, on
average, costing organizations at least $1.6 million per incident.

Recovering
individual files and application items can take even longer: for example,
recovering individual emails takes on average 14 hours.

Regardless
of recovery times, enterprises experience problems with more than 1 in 6
recoveries.

88% of CIOs experience capability-related challenges with backup and recovery, 84%
with complexity and 87% with cost: showing that data protection is still not a
simple task.

58% of CIOs are planning to change their backup tool for virtual environments by 2014.
"At first
glance, the fears of CIOs look to be correct: despite the potential for faster,
more efficient data protection that virtualization offers and the advances
modern data protection tools can provide, recovery times have increased since
2011,” said Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO of Veeam. ”This apparent loss of
momentum in data protection comes down to two influences. First, virtual
infrastructure is constantly growing: as well as forming the majority of IT
infrastructure now, it will continue to grow in the future. Second,
organizations are not updating their data protection tools and strategies to
match. For example, the majority of enterprises still deploy agents for backup
and recovery. This approach works for physical environments but is unnecessary
and ill-suited to the virtual infrastructure. Until organizations stop using a
physical-world mind-set to view the technology, they will never be able to
unlock its full potential.”

Currently,
virtual infrastructure accounts for 51% of enterprise servers, with this expected
to grow to 63% in 2014. CIOs are not blind to the data protection issues these
growing virtual infrastructures present. 88% of CIOs identified capability
challenges affecting their ability to backup and recover virtual servers, while
84% recognized complexity challenges and 87% cost issues. Similarly, 77% of
those enterprises using agent-based backup tools were experiencing problems or
management issues with the technology. These included excessively complex
management (43%), backups failing too often (32%), restores failing too often
(28%), the cost of the technology (20%) and agents slowing the performance of
servers (18%).

One sign
that enterprises are beginning to recognize this is that 58% are planning to
change the backup tool used for virtual servers by 2014. The primary driver for
this is financial, with 51% changing due to Total Cost of Ownership and 42% due
to current hardware and software costs. Complexity is a reason to change for
47%, while failure to meet Recovery Time Objectives (32%) and Recovery Point
Objectives (24%) are also factors.

”Virtualization
is reaching a turning point,” said Ratmir Timashev. ”Organizations have
realized the benefits that the technology can bring on its own: now they are
beginning to find out what it is truly capable of when managed and applied
correctly. Modern data protection tools, specifically built for virtualization,
can unlock this potential as well as eliminate many of the capability,
complexity and cost issues IT departments face. For example, reducing the cost
of techniques such as replication allows enterprises to protect far more of
their vital infrastructure from server downtime, saving millions of dollars in
the process. Virtualizing recovery means enterprises can test more of their
backups, rather than the mere 7% regularly tested at present. Most importantly,
using the appropriate tool for the job means that CIOs can recover either
individual items or entire servers in far less than 5 hours.”

<b>About the Survey</b>
Vanson Bourne, an
independent market research organization, conducted an online survey in
November and December 2012 of 500 CIOs from organizations across the United
States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France that employ more than 1,000 people.
Download the full report at www.veeam.com/survey.

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