CA – Recovery Management Research Overview

Research overview

>ENGAGE, Gyro’s online research panel, was used to investigate the opinions of IT decision makers in relation to the area of data protection, storage and recovery.

• Business profile• 500+ Employees; Turnover $250 - $1billion; All sectors

• Areas of responsibility • Data protection, storage and recovery

• Respondents • 367 from across the main European markets

Business drivers

Question: What are the main factors driving your organisation's strategies in the area of data recovery management? Please look at the list below and select the THREE most important to you only.

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Countinuing growth in the amount of data under management

Increasing business value of data under management

Growing Government compliance and regulation requirements

Need to consolidate data from remotre offices, branches and other business locations

Reducing costs

Meeting business continuity requirements e.g. RTO (Recovery Time Objectives

Reducing complexity

Risk mitigation by ensuring availability of critical business data

Other

Back-up frequency

Question: In general how often do you back-up data (e.g. from Microsoft Exchange applications) in a day? Please select one answer:

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Once a day

Twice a day

Every hour

Other

Don't know

Recovering data faster

Question: How beneficial would it be to you and your organisation to be able to recover data from any point in the past faster and with more ease?

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Very beneficial today

Quite beneficial

Of little benefit

No benefit

Don't know

91%

Buying criteria

Question: Please look at the following list of vendor selling points (forRecovery Management solutions) and indicate how important each one is to you and your business.

Back-up data continuously rather than

at set points in time

Assign different levels of protection to different

types of data and applications dependent

their value to the business

Better meet business continuity requirements such as RTO (Recovery

Time Objectives) Make it easier to recover

data and applications

Enable end-user file retrieval – without IT

intervention

Build on existing recovery and back-up

infrastructure investments

Very important 33% 36% 31% 57% 25% 27%Important 48% 59% 48% 37% 40% 54%Un-important 18% 3% 20% 5% 30% 14%Very un-important 1% 2% 1% 1% 5% 2%

Reduce complexity of existing recovery and back-up infrastructure

Meet compliance and regulation requirements

Improve data and application recovery

times Enable disaster recovery

testing and simulation Reduce data protection

costs

Very important 35% 48% 38% 35% 34%

Important 53% 35% 51% 42% 48%

Un-important 10% 15% 11% 22% 16%

Very un-important 2% 3% 1% 1% 2%

CDP – awareness levels

Question: How much do you know about the area of CDP (Continuous Data Protection) software and solutions? Please look at the statements below and select the most appropriate ones:

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

I have heard of CDP, clearly understand itsbenefits and my organisation has already

deployed CDP software in our storage(back-up and recovery) environment

I have heard of CDP, clearly understand itsbenefits and expect that my organisationwill deploy such solutions within the next

12-months

I have heard of CDP and clearlyunderstand its benefits but do not expect

my organisation to deploy such solutions inthe next 12 months

I have heard of CDP but am not that clearon the benefits of such solutions

I have not heard of CDP and do not knowwhat it can do for me or my organisation

50%

50%

CDP – attractiveness Question: Industry bodies describe Continuous data protection (CDP) as “a methodology that continuously captures or tracks data modifications and stores changes independent of the primary data, enabling recovery points from any point in the past.” How beneficial would it be to you and your organisation to be able to back-up data continuously rather than at designated times (back-up windows)? Please select the most appropriate answer

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Very beneficial

Quite beneficial

Of little benefit

No benefit

Don't know

91%