While the majority of businesses surveyed have a cloud, digital transformation or modernization project already planned for the next two years, these same businesses rate themselves as immature on resilience objectives. This gap highlights the current demands on IT teams who are being tasked with cloud and modernization projects even as they struggle to keep pace with basic protection and recovery. Additionally, 77% of those surveyed have suffered organizational impact from a tech-related business disruption in the past two years. The survey results validate that only with resilient operations can businesses mitigate the risk of downtime and focus on projects that drive transformation.
Key findings from the research include:
Significant gaps revealed between desired and existing state of operations
Ninety percent of organizations think data protection is important or critical for digital and/or IT transformation projects, yet the technological provisions are not in place to provide this level of data protection assurance.
Ensuring that the entire IT infrastructure is resilient will be critical for business success and for completion of transformation, modernization and cloud projects.
Businesses are putting themselves at risk
For organizations that experienced technology-related disruptions in the last two years, the consequences were significant.
o Of these disruptions, 77% suffered some organizational impact.
This risk is only going to become larger as disasters encompass broader categories of disruption, including malicious attacks.
o Of this group, 89% have succumbed to an attack with 39% having suffered five or more data corrupting events.
IT resilience spending and training will increase
IT resilience needs to be a key strategic priority for any forward-thinking organization and data protection needs to be top of mind for organizations in this resilience effort.