Introduction

Data resilience must be understood in the context of digitalresilience. IDC defines digital resilience as the highest-level term referring to the comprehensive nature of a business’ ability to conduct operations, including people, processes, and technology. As such, data resilience is part of digital resilience. With data being the lifeblood of organizations, data resilience is foundational to, and an essential component of, digital resilience.

WHAT’S IMPORTANT

Data resilience is foundational to business resilience and digital transformation. Organizations that exceed their peers in data resilience are also likely to exceed them in business outcomes.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

With data spread across core, cloud, and edge, organizations face added risk of data loss and unavailability. IT leaders need solutions that provide data resilience consistency as well as rapid, certain recovery from ransomware.

Benefits

If data resilience is foundational to digital resilience, then data protection and recovery is foundational to data resilience. It stands to reason that organizations that can recover faster from any given data outage and with less data loss will be positioned to better utilize that data. IDC research shows that one-third of organizations have suffered a cyberattack that prevented access to data or systems within the past 12 months (source: IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 11,December 2021). Thus data resilience is directly linked to competitive positioning in the marketplace.

A major challenge to data resilience is data silos. In fact, most organizations deal with more than 10 different silos. Having so many silos increases the risk of data loss due to increased intrusion opportunities and disparate orinconsistent data protection policies. These silos often require separate data protection products, leading to redundant purchases, inefficient operations, and excessive maintenance.

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