As IT environments evolve with hybrid work and increased cloud services, they face heightened risk to business-critical data. The 2025 State of Backup and Recovery Report, surveying over 3,000 IT experts, reveals a concerning trend: declining confidence in backup systems amid rising cloud adoption without parallel improvements in data protection strategies. Organizations grapple with escalating costs and complexities of business continuity and disaster recovery, eliciting frustrations with the reliability of backup processes. The article emphasizes critical findings from the report and highlights actionable insights for IT teams and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to navigate these challenges effectively.
Data backup and recovery should be a safety net for businesses, but for many, it has become a source of frustration, complexity and risk. The numbers tell a clear story - backup inefficiencies are rising, IT teams are overburdened and security vulnerabilities remain widespread.
While the need for a strong data protection strategy has become more critical than ever, organizations find themselves caught in a difficult balancing act. They are struggling to manage the rising costs and complexities of business continuity and disaster recovery.
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