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2015

DATA HEALTH CHECK


Welcome to the sixth annual Databarracks Data Health Check. This year we surveyed 404 IT decision makers from 19 different business sectors to find out how they’ve experienced the IT services they use in the last year, and what they expect to change in the next 12 months.

Survey Results

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Backup

As tape continues its decline into obsolescence, cloud backup is now the most popular method.


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Human error returns as the overall leading cause of data loss.


However, for the second year in a row, large organisations have lost more data to hardware failure than human error.


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Disaster Recovery

There's still a significant appetite for business continuity planning among respondents...


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Organisations that test their DR plans feel more confident about them.


How confident are you in your DR plan?

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IT Department

How do the priorities of different IT staff vary?


Most respondents thought senior business managers would underestimate tolerable downtime.


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Cyber Security

Cyber-attacks are still very common among respondents...


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of respondents have been attacked by Keyloggers

Keyloggers (the most common attack) can reside unnoticed for extended periods of time - the actual number of affected respondents may be higher.

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Cloud Computing

Security is still a big deal for customers of cloud computing


What's the most important factor when choosing a cloud service provider?

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And the majority of respondents still feel a loss of control when moving data to public cloud services and applications


However, respondents that actually use cloud services either trust them completely or only have minor concerns


How much confidence do you have in the cloud services you use to keep your data secure and available?

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Data Storage & Analytics

Respondents were still largely unsure of data analytics tools and practices.


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Full 2015 Report

Download the the full report by Technical Operations Manager, Oscar Arean.

Previous Reports

Take a look at last years' Data Health Check reports.