Use of the cloud as a DR and secondary data location is well established, with 40% reporting its use for these purposes. Only about 33% of those questioned said this was how they do things, with “central IT”, the cloud decision-making team and application owners more likely to be involved. About one-quarter (23%) had brought workloads back on-site after failing over to the cloud during a disaster.ĭata protection strategy in the cloud is increasingly not handled by the data protection team in the IT department. Only 7% had had second thoughts and repatriated cloud workloads back in-house. One-fifth (21%) use the cloud as a secondary site for DR and 36% use it for development.ĭespite talk of cloud repatriation – bringing workloads back from the cloud to the customer datacentre – this mostly happens to those that have been developed in the cloud but for use on-prem (58% of those questioned had done this).
In keeping with that finding, the cloud is now a mainstream location for high priority and normal production workloads for a majority of respondents (47% and 55% respectively). Meanwhile, use of virtual machines in the datacentre will decline from 30% in 2020 to 24% in 2023.īut use of virtual machines in the cloud is set to increase from 32% in 2020 to 52% in 2023. The most general finding of the survey is that the cloud as a location for data protection is increasing hugely, especially since before the pandemic.Īccording to respondents’ estimates, use of physical servers in the customer datacentre will decline from 38% of the organisation’s data in 2020 pre-Covid to 24% in 2023. Those are some of the findings of the 2021 Veeam cloud protection trends report, which questioned 1,551 IT decision-makers in 14 countries about data protection and the cloud. And native cloud-based backup of software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms such as Microsoft Office 365 is largely untrusted. Meanwhile, disaster recovery (DR) using the cloud is in widespread use, despite some challenges.