SaaS Applications Not Immune to Data Loss, Report by ESG | TORONTO – March 29, 2023 – Asigra Inc., a leader in ultra-secure backup and recovery, today highlighted the findings of a report by the Enterprise Strategy Group called “SaaS Data Protection: A Work in Progress.” The report surveyed IT professionals at medium to large enterprises familiar and/or responsible for SaaS data protection technology decisions and provides insights on data protection and production technologies that may leverage cloud services as part of the solutions offered.
SaaS applications provide businesses with the convenience of accessing software over the internet, eliminating the need for expensive hardware and IT personnel to manage the software and data. For years, there has been an ongoing shift to SaaS apps as they also provide businesses with improved collaboration, productivity and the flexibility to scale up or down as their needs require, which is important for medium and large organizations in terms of business agility. However, one major oversight for many thousands of SaaS apps now on the market is their lack of business-class data protection.
This situation is made clear in the vast majority of SaaS vendor terms of service which make statements like “We recommend that you regularly backup the content and data you store on the services or use third-party apps and services (Microsoft Support: https://docs.microsoft.com)” or “Archive your content frequently. You are responsible for any lost or unrecoverable content. You must provide all required and appropriate warning, information and disclosures. Intuit is not responsible for any of your content you submit through the services (https://quickbooks.intuit.com/global/terms-of-service/).
The Enterprise Strategy Group report was conducted across mid- to large enterprise IT professionals in North America. The quantitative web-based survey received 398 completed surveys back from which the report was generated. Some of the more notable findings are:
According to Christophe Bertrand, Senior Analyst and author of the report, “SaaS data protection is a top priority by a majority of organizations with budgets expected to increase. Funding the protection of a wide range of applications throughout an organization will be a team sport and application managers will be key to this effort.”
“As more businesses rely on SaaS applications for critical business operations, it's imperative that they prioritize the protection of these apps,” said Eric Simmons, CEO of Asigra. “With the increasing amount of data being generated, stored, and shared through these applications, it’s crucial to have a comprehensive backup and recovery solution like SaaSBACKUP℠ in place to protect both the popular and more obscure applications. Companies that neglect this risk losing critical information and suffering both costly downtime and reputational damage.”
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Trusted since 1986, Asigra’s ultra-secure, award-winning backup technologies have been proudly developed in and supported from North America, providing organizations worldwide with the ability to quickly recover their data from anywhere through a global network of IT service providers. As the industry’s most secure backup and recovery solution for SaaS/Cloud applications, servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases, applications, and IaaS based applications, Asigra protects sensitive data with anti-ransomware defense and recovery. The company has been recognized as a three-time Product of the Year Gold winner by TechTarget for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software and is positioned well in leading market research. More information on Asigra can be found at www.asigra.com.
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