Small And Mid-Sized Businesses Gain Disaster Recovery Advantages Using Cloud Storage

Companies that utilize public Cloud storage recover almost four-times faster from an IT-related downtime event than organizations that only store their business critical data onsite, according to a study. Small and mid-sized organizations are gaining the most disaster recovery advantages as they are utilizing public Cloud storage more often than larger companies. Companies utilizing public Cloud storage are, on average, meeting all of their Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) while organizations not using the Cloud are regularly missing their RTO goals.

The research found:

--  Companies that utilize public Cloud storage are far more likely to have a superior disaster recovery program. Forty-six percent (46 percent) of public Cloud storage users were found to have the highest performing disaster recovery programs.
--  Cloud and non-Cloud storage users both have similar RTOs of about 12 hours. Users of Cloud storage, on average meet this RTO goal 100 percent of the time while non-adopters of Cloud storage report they meet only 80 percent of this objective.
--  Companies that store copies of their business critical data in the public Cloud report they have, on average reduced the number of IT-related downtime events by 9 percent over the last 12 months versus a reduction of only 4.7 percent for organizations that keep their data onsite.

Comment from Dick Csaplar, Senior Research Analyst and author of the study: Public Cloud-based storage offers small and mid-sized organizations a disaster recovery advantage that formerly was available only to larger companies -- the ability to store copies of business critical data at a remote location. Users of public Cloud storage are more likely to be among the leaders of reducing or eliminating IT-related downtime than organizations that keep their data onsite.

About the study: The research is based on a survey of the storage and DR practices of over 100 worldwide companies.

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