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Veeam Cloud Protection Trends Report for 2023 identifies what is driving IT leaders to change strategies , roles and methods related to both production and protection of cloud-hosted workloads

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The survey found that companies are recognising the increasing need to protect their SaaS environments . For example , nearly 90 % of Microsoft 365 customers surveyed use supplemental measures rather than relying solely on built-in recovery capabilities . Preparing for a rapid recovery from cyber and ransomware attacks was the top cited reason for this backup , with regulatory compliance as the next most popular business driver .

While new IT workloads are launching in the cloud at far faster rates than old workloads are being decommissioned in the data centre , a surprising 88 % brought workloads from the cloud back to their data centre for one or more reasons , including development , cost / performance optimisation and Disaster Recovery . And with cybersecurity ( including ransomware ) continuing to be a critical concern , data protection strategies have evolved and most organisations are delegating backup responsibilities to specialists , instead of requiring each workload ( IaaS , SaaS , PaaS ) owner to protect their data .

The majority of backups of cloud workloads are now being done by the backup team and no longer require the specialised expertise or added burden of cloud administrators .

Unfortunately , though , as is often the case for new cloud-hosted architectures , some PaaS administrators are incorrectly presuming that the native durability of cloud-hosted services relieves the need for backup . For example , the survey found that 34 % of organisations do not yet back up their cloud-hosted file shares and 15 % do not back up their cloudhosted databases .