Veritas: enterprise cloud adoption accelerates
- Businesses are moving more data and workloads to the cloud and
taking advantage of cloud-hosted solutions, making multifaceted data
management and protection more important than ever before.
- Forty-seven percent (Singapore: 63%) of respondents characterise their company’s current infrastructure state as an even split between the public cloud and the data centre.
- More than 70% (Singapore: 66%) indicate their desired end state is to run most or all of their applications on public cloud infrastructure.
Veritas Technologies' Truth in Cloud Report reiterates the industry’s shift toward cloud. The company says that there is a 4x year-over-year increase in data moving to two leading public clouds to power backup and disaster recovery at scale over the past year alone. This is in addition to an increase in the number of Veritas NetBackup workloads that have moved to the cloud in that same timeframe. NetBackup is the company's backup and recovery solution.
The Truth in Cloud Report found that 47% (Singapore: 63%) of respondents characterise their company’s current infrastructure state as an even split between the public cloud and the data centre. However, more than 70% (Singapore: 66%) said their desired end state is to run most or all of their applications on public cloud infrastructure.
Respondents are moving quickly to make this happen for non-production systems and dev/test environments, as well as mission-critical production systems. The increasingly distributed nature of IT systems is likely one major reason many companies are also increasing their investment in the technology used to protect and secure them.
Nearly 70% (Singapore: 73%) have allocated budget to purchase new solutions to address cloud data protection in the next 12 months, and a majority expect their budget for backup and recovery to increase substantially over the next three years. However, respondents had responsibility over both on-premises and cloud-based workloads, almost half (Singapore: 52%) would rather do so with a single backup solution.
“Cloud adoption has become a reality for many customers with new workloads and advanced deployments gaining pace. Today, many organisations have to manage different data sources and they would benefit from disaster recovery and cloud data protection across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments,” said Ravi Rajendran, VP and MD, Asia South Region, Veritas.
While organisations are choosing the cloud for a variety of deployments, three use cases demonstrate the most common cloud strategies being employed by Veritas customers globally today:
Cloud for storage
The first foray into cloud adoption for many companies is running applications on-premises while using the cloud for storage.
Data protection in the cloud for cloud-based application workloads
As application workloads shift to the cloud, the need to protect cloud-based data increases. Many companies are deploying data protection in the cloud to address this need.
Global environmental services firm Veolia,decided to improve efficiencies and reduce costs by shifting all applications and data from on-premises data centres to AWS.
“Knowing that all our data is in a central location, and that we can access it instantaneously, is a huge benefit of using NetBackup with AWS. A data restore that might take days in our on-premises environment can complete in seconds or minutes in AWS,” said Aurélien Durand, Storage and Backup Engineer, Veolia, which has a presence in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.
Cloud as an on-demand data centre for disaster recovery
While some organisations choose to migrate the entire data center infrastructure to the cloud, others want to use the cloud as an on-demand resource for fast recovery during a disaster.
When China International Marine Containers (CIMC) wanted to move its business-critical applications to the cloud, it adopted a solution from Veritas that replicates data between an on-premises appliance and AWS cloud storage. The solution satisfies disaster recovery concerns, while significantly improving efficiency of data protection companywide.
“Veritas has the industry-leading technology and solid industry background knowledge, with a professional local team,” said Jinjie Pan, CIO of CIMC.
“Veritas is becoming our most important partner for digital transformation strategy. Through the Veritas data management solution, we can meet business requirements and pave the way for our future innovation.”
*A total of 1,645 cloud architects and administrators were interviewed in June and July, 2019 across the US, the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, the UAE, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan and Korea.
- Forty-seven percent (Singapore: 63%) of respondents characterise their company’s current infrastructure state as an even split between the public cloud and the data centre.
- More than 70% (Singapore: 66%) indicate their desired end state is to run most or all of their applications on public cloud infrastructure.
Veritas Technologies' Truth in Cloud Report reiterates the industry’s shift toward cloud. The company says that there is a 4x year-over-year increase in data moving to two leading public clouds to power backup and disaster recovery at scale over the past year alone. This is in addition to an increase in the number of Veritas NetBackup workloads that have moved to the cloud in that same timeframe. NetBackup is the company's backup and recovery solution.
The Truth in Cloud Report found that 47% (Singapore: 63%) of respondents characterise their company’s current infrastructure state as an even split between the public cloud and the data centre. However, more than 70% (Singapore: 66%) said their desired end state is to run most or all of their applications on public cloud infrastructure.
Respondents are moving quickly to make this happen for non-production systems and dev/test environments, as well as mission-critical production systems. The increasingly distributed nature of IT systems is likely one major reason many companies are also increasing their investment in the technology used to protect and secure them.
Nearly 70% (Singapore: 73%) have allocated budget to purchase new solutions to address cloud data protection in the next 12 months, and a majority expect their budget for backup and recovery to increase substantially over the next three years. However, respondents had responsibility over both on-premises and cloud-based workloads, almost half (Singapore: 52%) would rather do so with a single backup solution.
“Cloud adoption has become a reality for many customers with new workloads and advanced deployments gaining pace. Today, many organisations have to manage different data sources and they would benefit from disaster recovery and cloud data protection across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments,” said Ravi Rajendran, VP and MD, Asia South Region, Veritas.
While organisations are choosing the cloud for a variety of deployments, three use cases demonstrate the most common cloud strategies being employed by Veritas customers globally today:
Cloud for storage
The first foray into cloud adoption for many companies is running applications on-premises while using the cloud for storage.
Data protection in the cloud for cloud-based application workloads
As application workloads shift to the cloud, the need to protect cloud-based data increases. Many companies are deploying data protection in the cloud to address this need.
Global environmental services firm Veolia,decided to improve efficiencies and reduce costs by shifting all applications and data from on-premises data centres to AWS.
“Knowing that all our data is in a central location, and that we can access it instantaneously, is a huge benefit of using NetBackup with AWS. A data restore that might take days in our on-premises environment can complete in seconds or minutes in AWS,” said Aurélien Durand, Storage and Backup Engineer, Veolia, which has a presence in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.
Cloud as an on-demand data centre for disaster recovery
While some organisations choose to migrate the entire data center infrastructure to the cloud, others want to use the cloud as an on-demand resource for fast recovery during a disaster.
When China International Marine Containers (CIMC) wanted to move its business-critical applications to the cloud, it adopted a solution from Veritas that replicates data between an on-premises appliance and AWS cloud storage. The solution satisfies disaster recovery concerns, while significantly improving efficiency of data protection companywide.
“Veritas has the industry-leading technology and solid industry background knowledge, with a professional local team,” said Jinjie Pan, CIO of CIMC.
“Veritas is becoming our most important partner for digital transformation strategy. Through the Veritas data management solution, we can meet business requirements and pave the way for our future innovation.”
*A total of 1,645 cloud architects and administrators were interviewed in June and July, 2019 across the US, the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, the UAE, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan and Korea.
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