HOPKINTON, MASS, DECEMBER 02, 2014 — /BackupReview.info/ —
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced the findings of a new global data protection study that reveals that data loss and downtime cost enterprises $1.7 trillion in the last twelve months, or the equivalent of nearly 50% of Germany’s GDP. Data loss is up by 400% since 2012 while, surprisingly, 71% of organizations are still not fully confident in their ability to recover after a disruption.
EMC® Global Data Protection Index, conducted by Vanson Bourne, surveyed 3,300 IT decision makers from mid-size to enterprise-class businesses across 24 countries.
Impact of Data Loss and Downtime
The good news is that the number of data loss incidents is decreasing overall. However, the volume of data lost during an incident is growing exponentially:
New Wave of Data Protection Challenges
Business trends, such as big data, mobile and hybrid cloud create new challenges for data protection:
The Protection Paradox
Adopting advanced data protection technologies dramatically decreases the likelihood of disruption. And, many companies turn to multiple IT vendors to solve their data protection challenges. However, a siloed approach to deploying these can increase risks:
The Maturity Matrix
EMC Data Protection Index survey participants were award points based on their responses, ranking their data protection maturity in one of four categories (see methodology for further details):
EXECUTIVE QUOTE
“This research highlights the enormous monetary impact of unplanned downtime and data loss to businesses everywhere. With 62% of IT decision-makers interviewed feeling challenged to protect hybrid cloud, big data and mobile, it’s understandable that almost all of them lack the confidence that data protection will be able to meet future business challenges. We hope the global data protection index will prompt IT leaders to pause and reevaluate whether their current data protection solutions are in alignment with today’s business requirements as well as their long term goals.” Guy Churchward, President, EMC Core Technologies
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
METHODOLOGY
Research carried out independently by Vanson Bourne between August and September 2014. Respondents were IT decision makers within organizations employing over 250 people. There were a total of 3,300 respondents from 24 countries. 200 respondents each in the USA, UK, France and Germany and 125 respondents each in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, UAE, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Australia, Japan, China, Korea, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia.
To create the maturity curve, IT decision-makers were asked specific questions relating to their backup and recovery experience, strategy and infrastructure. Each section was scored out of 64 to give an overall maturity rating. This score was then multiplied by a scaling factor to normalize the curve and give a total score out of 100 points. Once scored, these IT decision-makers were divided into four even segments from a low to high score; Laggards (scoring 1–25), Evaluators (scoring 26-50), Adopters (scoring 51-75) and Leaders (scoring 76-100).
ABOUT EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
EMC is a registered trademark or trademark of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries.
PRESS CONTACTS
Ed Luboja
(203) 210-7404
edward.luboja@emc.com
www.emc.com
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