Protecting Data in the Cloud: The Truth about SaaS Backup

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Backupify teamed up with IT community Spiceworks to produce a piece of research focused on how today's IT departments back up data in their SaaS applications. This slide deck reveals some surprising stats on how IT professionals deal with data in the cloud.

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Daniel Stevenson, VP Business Development | daniel@backupify.com

ABOUT SAAS truth backup

WHAT WE DO

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BACK UP all YOUR SAAS DATA

$131Billion

$677 Billion

2016

2013

EXPLOSIVE GROWTH FOR THE CLOUD

Gartner Research "Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q12 Update." February 2013

SURVEY BACKGROUND

TOTAL SURVEY SIZE: MORE THAN 200 I.T. PROFESSIONALS LOCATION OF RESPONDENTS: U.S. COMPANY SIZE:

SAAS APPLICATIONS ARE COMING TO AN OFFICE NEAR YOU

54% of I.T. pros have implemented some form of SaaS applications

14% plan to implement SaaS apps in the next 6 months

THE MOST COMMON SAAS APPLICATIONS INCLUDE:

of I.T. pros that use or plan to use SaaS apps categorize the data stored in their SaaS apps as “very to extremely important”

81%

half

OF I.T. PROS DON’T BACK UP THEIR SAAS DATA (or even plan to)

what’s backup?

But why?!

read the fine print YOUR SAAS PROVIDER MAY NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR BACKING UP YOUR DATA

1 out of 3 COMPANIES USING SAAS LOSE DATA

47% End-user delete

17% Employee overwrote data

13% Hacker delete

10% Ended SaaS service

7% Application overwrote another

7% Malicious delete

why SAAS DATA LOSS HAPPENS

how I.T. PROS BACK UP SAAS DATA

28% Through SaaS provider’s API

47% Manual export

15% Cloud-to-cloud backup vendor

25% Other

how I.T. PROS BACK UP SAAS DATA

28% Through SaaS provider’s API

47% Manual export

15% Cloud-to-cloud backup vendor

25% Other

time-consuming and cumbersome for I.T. pros

how I.T. PROS BACK UP SAAS DATA

28% Through SaaS provider’s API

47% Manual export

15% Cloud-to-cloud backup vendor

25% Other

requires advanced coding expertise

how I.T. PROS BACK UP SAAS DATA

28% Through SaaS provider’s API

47% Manual export

15% Cloud-to-cloud backup vendor

25% Other

saves time and money

SO, what’s CLOUD-TO-CLOUD BACKUP?

“Cloud-to-cloud backup providers offer an automated and simplified way to backup copies of your critical data from one cloud to another.” – Rachel Dines, Forrester Research

Forrester Research "Back Up Your Critical Cloud Data Before Its Too Late" February 2014

WHAT I.T. PROS LOOK FOR IN A BACKUP PROVIDER

Security Automated Backups Centralized Management Cost Local Downloads One-Click Restore Search Intuitive Online Archives Full Account Export Cloud Storage

to sum it up

54% of IT pros are using some form of SaaS applications and companies are storing more data than ever in cloud apps

and

81% of companies categorize this data as “very to extremely important”

but

52% of companies aren’t backing up the data in their SaaS applications

so

cloud-to-cloud CONSIDER A

BACKUP SOLUTION AS AN I.T. BEST PRACTICE TO PROTECT COMPANY DATA

PROTECTING OVER 1.5 PETABYTES OF DATA

INCLUDING 5.1 BILLION E-MAILS

FOR OVER 7,000 COMPANIES

WHAT WE DO

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