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// FEATURE // from cloud storage as a repository to fullfledged BaaS or DRaaS services .

The survey also found that BaaS is predominantly sought for gaining operational and economic efficiencies , as well as assuring data survivability from disasters and ransomware attacks . Notably , BaaS is no longer seen as the ‘ tape killer ’ that early pundits offered , with organisations stating that nearly 50 % of their data is still stored on tape during its life cycle , regardless of their use of cloud-based data protection services .
This year ’ s report showed a significant shift from last year as customers are increasingly interested in outsourcing their backups and gaining a ’ turnkey ’ or ‘ white-glove ’ level of management service instead of the internal IT staff continuing to manage BaaS-delivered infrastructure . This shift indicates that experience and trust in providers is increasing and could also point to challenges over the past year with the IT talent supply chain .
The Veeam Cloud Protection Trends Report 2023 – born from the annual Veeam Data Protection Trends Report – is the result of a third-party research firm that surveyed 1,700 unbiased IT leaders from seven countries ( US , UK , France , Germany , Japan , Australia , New Zealand ) on their use of cloud services in both production and protection scenarios to deliver the largest single view into the trajectory of hybrid strategies across the modern IT enterprise in today ’ s cloud-first digital landscape .
The broad-based market study was conducted to understand the various perspectives on responsibilities and methodologies related to operating and protecting cloud-hosted workloads and considerations when using cloud-powered data protection . �

BAAS IS PREDOMINANTLY SOUGHT FOR GAINING OPERATIONAL AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCIES .
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