1. InformationWeek 2014 Backup Technologies Survey Research Findings © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

2. Plenty of technologies get more attention than backups, but not many are more important. When your main data center is under water, you can either recover or you can't. Among the 437 respondents to our InformationWeek Backup Technologies Survey, all of whom screened in by indicating involvement with the selection, evaluation, or use of backup technologies, the No. 1 data protection challenge is the cost of backup systems and procedures. Other data points: >> 59% back up directly to tape, down from 66% in 2013. >> 54% expect to still be backing up direct to tape in 18 months. >> 41% do not encrypt removable media. >> 11% have three or more different backup applications in use. Respondent breakdown: 18% have 5,000 or more employees; 12% are over 10,000. Education, consulting, and government are well-represented, and 40% are IT director/manager or IT executive management (C-level/VP level). Want more? Visit InformationWeek ReportsInformationWeek Reports Executive Summary v © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

3. Fewer got new backup applications in the last year © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

4. Most use same backup system for physical/virtual servers © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

5. One backup application is most common © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

6. Most use conventional software to back up virtual servers © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

7. Most back up physical servers weekly or more © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

8. Most back up virtual servers weekly or more © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

9. Reasons some users aren’t backing up weekly © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

10. How much are you using different backup technologies? © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

11. Which backup technologies are you using at all? © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

12. Which backup technologies will you use most in 18 months? © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

13. Which backup technologies do you expect to use at all? © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

14. Most respondents like their backup system © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

15. Likelihood of successful disaster recovery © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

16. How long data is stored on non-removable media © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

17. How long data is stored on removable media © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

18. Cloud storage gains ground © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

19. Less than a third encrypt backup tapes © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

20. Types of data restored most often © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

21. How often data is restored © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

22. Symantec makes gains for VM infrastructure backups © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

23. Software used for VM backups © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

24. Problems with data protection © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

25. How often respondents test backups © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

26. How respondents back up remote office data © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

27. How much data respondents protect © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

28. How many physical servers respondents protect © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

29. How many virtual servers respondents protect © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

30. Survey respondents’ job titles © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

31. Annual revenue of survey respondents’ employers © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

32. Survey respondents’ industry © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

33. Number of employees at survey respondents’ companies © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

34. Survey Name InformationWeek 2014 Backup Technologies Survey Survey Date May 2014 Region North America Number of Respondents 437 Purpose To explore the state of data backups today and interest in emerging ­technologies. Methodology InformationWeek surveyed business technology decision-makers at North American companies. The survey was conducted online, and respondents were recruited via an email invitation containing an embedded link to the survey. The email invitation was sent to qualified InformationWeek subscribers. Want more? Visit InformationWeek ReportsInformationWeek Reports Research Synopsis © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved