The Veeam Data Center Availability Report 2014 investigates the increasing demands organisations face to provide an Always-On Business, what actions they are taking to meet those demands, and how successful their actions are. Following on from previous Veeam Data Protection Reports, this report investigates whether existing solutions can provide the always-on availability that businesses demand in the 21st century.
In particular, the report shows that there are clear demands for 24/7 access to IT services and applications, with over 90% of enterprises increasing their requirements for minimising downtime and guaranteeing access to data. It also demonstrates how organisations are modernising their data centre infrastructure, in order to meet these requirements.
Despite investments in the modern data centre, there is an "availability gap" between the Always-On Business requirements and what legacy backup solutions can deliver in terms of recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Indeed, to meet the demands of the Always-On Business, organisations would need to recover mission-critical data in 60% of the time it takes them now, and perform backup 1.5 times more often.
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