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4 DISASTER RECOVERY GUIDE – POWERED BY ZERTO 400% Growth Total volume of data loss in two years (Security Week) $2.1 Trillion Total cost of data breaches in 2019 (IT Web) 64% of Companies Experienced major disruptions in the past 12 months (EMC) SECTION 1 Disaster Recovery: Needs and Technologies (source: 365datacenters.com) 71% of IT Decsion Makers Not confident in their ability to recover (CIO Insight) 15 million Applications Deployed on virtualized infrastructures (CIO Insight) 86% of All Server Workloads Are virtualized in 2016 (Gartner Group) The Causes and Costs of Data Loss Modern businesses can't afford to lose data. Whatever the cause — natural disaster, human error, or cyber attack — data loss is costly and extremely risky. Research from various institutes shows that the volume and cost of data loss are increasing year over year. The need for a business continuity strategy to ensure uptime, diminish data loss, and maximize productivity in the midst of any compromising situation is a necessary digital assurance policy for any company. Because the question is no longer if a disaster will strike, but when. TOP CAUSES OF DATA LOSS AND DOWNTIME In a virtualized world Many organizations have virtualized their production environment and gained real efficiencies and realized measurable savings. However, many of the management efficiencies are lost in the IT resilience sphere, as BC/DR technologies are typically based on dated technologies – array-based replication or agent-based replication – that are not virtualization-aware. As more and more technologies are leveraged within disaster recovery planning, it is very difficult to create a consistent and repeatable disaster recovery plan. UPS System Failure 4% 6% 10% 11% 22% 22% 25% Cyber Crime Human Error CRAC Failure Weather Related Generator Failure IT Equipment Failure