Organisations pursuing a digital strategy will, at some point in the journey, need to address the issue of whether current, aka legacy systems and processes, are getting in the way of transformation journeys. Arguably one of the more important considerations of any modernisation, be it infrastructure, applications, or processes is ensuring data remains protected and secured regardless of the strategy taken.Notable in the annual Veeam 2022 Data Protection report of the top change drivers in data protection for 2022 is the placement of “moving away from legacy solutions” to the bottom of importance (2%). In this PodChats for FutureCIO, Dave Russell, vice president of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam, shared his views on what’s driving the widening data protection gap and how to narrow it.Click on the PodChat player to Russell’s candid responses on the following questions:1. Why do you think respondents to the Veeam survey did not deem moving away from legacy hardware solutions as an important driver in their data protection strategies?2. The Veeam report revealed a data protection gap of 40% indicating inadequate backup or failure to meet SLAs as the top challenge in 2021. Is this because IT is too complex to provide protection across systems, including virtualized containers and Shadow IT?3. Do the many different types of outages, be they infrastructure, application, servers or even cybersecurity incidents, can this be attributed to the increasing use of complex heterogeneous systems including on-premise data centres, hybrid and multi-cloud? 4. We understand that there has been a noticeable increase in ransomware attacks since the pandemic started. What is the average duration of a ransomware attack from awareness to resolution? And is the resolution veering towards paying the ransom?5. Among the many backup approaches – point-in-time, full, differential, incremental and continuous backups, are backup strategies today changing as companies opt to backup to the cloud?6. Would artificial intelligence in backup narrow the data protection gap and reduce failed recoveries?7. In terms of Veeam’s data protection offering, to what extent are automation technologies being used to improve overall outcome and speed?

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