MADRID, 9 Jun. (Portaltic/EP) -
Veeam Software's independent study of 500 SMEs in the United States and Europe reveals that small and medium-sized businesses face significant problems of cost, complexity and lack of performance of their virtualized data protection systems. In particular, 85 percent of SMBs have difficulties related to data backup and restore service costs (backup and recovery), 83 percent with lack of functionality, and 80 percent with complexity.
This means that, at most, only 15 percent of SMEs do not currently have any data protection problems. In fact, according to the study, 55 percent of SMBs plan to change the backup tool for their virtual servers in 2014.
On the other hand, Recovering virtual servers from SMBs is only slightly faster than recovering physical servers: 4 hours and 21 minutes and 4 hours and 51 minutes, respectively. Recovering isolated files, such as emails, can take up to 12 hours and 8 minutes. This may be because 62 percent of SMBs, in order to recover a single file or element of an application, often have to recover more than they need.
In addition, 67 percent of SMB backup tools use agents, which can add complexity: 76 percent of SMBs find it difficult to manage agents, experience slowness, and too frequent failures, both backup and recovery. 63 percent of SMBs believe their backup and recovery tools will become less effective as the number of data and servers in their organizations increases.
More than 1 in 6 (17 percent) machine recalls present problems for SMEs, increasing recovery times and service interruption costs. Something not surprising, considering that only 8 percent are tested. Currently, on average, 33 percent of SMB virtual infrastructures do not have backup.
Related links:
- Veeam.com
