Zetta Reveals Cloud Storage and Data Protection Survey Results

 

Backup and Archive Are Top Applications Planned for the Cloud

 

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January 26, 2011 – SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Enterprise cloud storage service provider Zetta announced today the results of a cloud storage and data protection survey of more than 230 IT professionals that revealed that half of them were planning to use cloud storage. The survey covered various industries, with the top five being government, education, software and technology, financial services, and manufacturing. The most cited benefits of the cloud were lower costs and dynamic growth, at 49 percent each. Applications most often planned for the cloud included backup - 44 percent of the respondents said - and online archive, per 38 percent of them.

 

As expected, security and privacy were mentioned as a barrier to cloud storage adoption by 60 percent of the IT pros, up from the 47 percent that Zetta's 2009 survey revealed. The most cited data protection issue was recovery time, with 58 percent of the respondents claiming this problem.

 

Per Zetta's survey, 65 percent of the respondents were not able to consistently achieve their own Recovery Time Objective (RPO). Another research report recently released by Aberdeen Group and sponsored by Zetta, titled “Small and Mid-Sized Organizations Gain Disaster Recovery Advantages Using Cloud Storage,” shows that companies utilizing public cloud storage are, on average, meeting all of their Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) while organizations not using the cloud are regularly missing their RTO goals.

 

The Aberdeen report also found that companies that utilize public cloud storage recover almost four-times faster from an IT-related downtime event. The report revealed that companies that utilize public cloud storage are far more likely to have a superior disaster recovery program. Forty-six percent (46%) of public cloud storage users were found to have the highest performing disaster recovery programs.

 

“This year's survey brings to light the pain felt by enterprises in protecting their data, particularly in times of crisis or recovery,” points out Jeff Bell, Zetta director of corporate marketing. “The Aberdeen study clear shows that leveraging the cloud for data protection makes a significant, positive difference.”

 

Download the Zetta survey here: http://zetta.net/docs/Zetta_Cloud_Storage_and_DR_Survey_2010.pdf. A complimentary copy of the Aberdeen report is available here: http://bit.ly/hCbbJa.

 

About the Zetta Storage Service

The Zetta Storage Service is compatible with existing on-premise storage systems and integrates with existing IT workflows. It delivers better data availability, integrity, and security protections than the most expensive on-premise enterprise storage systems on the market today. Zetta's enterprise-class architecture guarantees availability and integrity even in the event of multiple complete node failure from any cause, whether network, power supply, memory, or disk failure. Enterprise customers from a variety of industries such as legal services, education, business services, financial services, media and entertainment, as well as software and technology are using the Zetta Storage Service for on-demand data protection and online archiving.

 

About Zetta

Zetta Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise cloud storage services. With headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Zetta was established in 2007 by successful serial entrepreneurs and technology executives from companies such as Netscape, VeriSign, Symantec, EMC, and Shutterfly. The company is backed by Sigma Partners, Foundation Capital, and its founders. For more information, please visit www.zetta.net.

 

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