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4 DISASTER RECOVERY GUIDE – Powered by ZERTO SECTION 1 Disaster Recovery: Needs & Technologies TOP CAUSES OF DATA LOSS AND DOWNTIME (source: World Backup Day 2015) Hardware failure Human error Software corruption Computer viruses Natural disasters 44% 32% 14% 7% 3% 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) 71% OF IT DECISION 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 & 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 costs 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. ...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 BC/DR 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 the disaster recovery planning, it is very difficult to create a consistent and repeatable disaster recovery plan.