In a recent Spiceworks survey of 113 IT professionals, almost 60% estimated that they back up more than 20 TB of data—an amount that continues to grow. What does this increasing data volume mean for your IT workload and backup challenges? And what factors present the greatest risk of data loss? Read on to explore the survey findings as well as how you can prepare for the future of data protection.

With 57% of respondents backingup 20 TB+ —and more than a thirdbacking up at least 50 TB—theirconcerns are very valid.

DATA BACKUP CHALLENGES ARE COMPOUNDING.Our survey reveals that IT professionals view exponential data growth as a major threat.The top 3 challenges cited with their current backup practices?

EVER-GROWING DATA VOLUMESCREATE MORE ROOM FOR ERROR.As the volume of data grows, so does the risk for error.

IS IT TIME TO RETHINKYOUR BACKUP STRATEGY?Don’t put your business at risk. Get creative withyour backup strategy now—before it’s too late.

VOLUMEof databacked up

COST of backupsolutions

Amount of TIMEto backup/recover applications or data

And it’s only going to get worse, as the amount of data IT professionals back up shows nosigns of slowing.

66% report the amount ofdata they’ve backed up over the past year has increased

69% expect thistrend to continuewithin the next year

Don’t know

The #1 threat to data continuity and availability?

HUMAN ERROR

PRODUCTIVITY

COMPANY REPUTATION

CORPORATE BOTTOM LINE

Get it all with bluesource Backup Services. Gain a solidbackup strategy that protects and restores your dataswiftly and cost effectively. Our services include:

Cloud to economicallyback up and archivegrowing data volumes

Backup strategy andplanning to realiseRecovery Time andRecovery Point Objectives

Backup audits andtroubleshooting toresolve immediate issues

Fully optimised on-premises backupsolutions monitored 24x7

Fully managed backup services to free IT tofocus on other initiatives

OTHER RISKS:2. NETWORK/ CONNECTIVITY ISSUES3. SERVER FAILURE

And when your data goes down,this negatively impacts:

<20 TB39%

>100 TB15%

20-50 TB21%

50-100 TB

21%

4%

BLUESOURCE MANAGED SERVICES FOR BACKUP MINIMISE RISKOF CATASTROPHIC DATA LOSS.bluesource doesn’t protect just business information, but operational resilience—andwe minimise downtime when files, servers or storage must be restored. Prepare forthe future of backup: trust in bluesource managed services to help you lower risk and optimise your backup resources and budget.

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Source: Spiceworks survey of 113 IT professionals in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada,conducted on behalf of bluesource, October 2014.

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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO DE-RISK DATA BACKUP?

OPTIMIZEdata protectionfor scalabilityand compliance

MAINTAINproductivitywith fasterdata recovery

DELIVERan economical solution to data retention to ease storage costs

SECUREvaluable corporate data acrossendpoint devices

AVOIDmissing backupwindows to minimize unprotected data

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