Data protection joins forces with cloud<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Businesses are taking a combination of cloud approaches when deploying new business applications and protecting workloads such as containers and cloud-native and SaaS applications. The findings show that APJ respondents\u2019 organisations prefer public cloud\/SaaS (46%), hybrid cloud (38%) and private cloud (36%) as deployment environments for newer applications such as these. Also, 76% of organisations surveyed say it is mandatory or extremely important for data protection providers to protect cloud-native applications. <\/span><\/p>\n

As more data moves to, through and around edge environments, many respondents say cloud-based backups are preferred, with 60% citing private cloud and 59% citing public cloud as their approach for managing and protecting data created in edge locations. <\/span><\/p>\n

With the recent COVID-19 virus situation causing huge impacts to the world economy, how we work and live, working from home is a possible and accepted working solution in the near future as the business and working environments transformed and evolved from this crisis. While it might not directly impact or used extensively by personal daily users, the importance of data and cybersecurity will only rise in the years to come, for both commercial and personal sectors. <\/span><\/p>\n