He was the lead author of the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery Solutions from 2006 to 2018. His research focus at Gartner was on storage strategies and technologies, with an emphasis on backup/recovery, snapshot and replication, software-defined storage (SDS) and storage management. Prior to Veeam, Russell held the role of Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. Please check out this 4-minute video:Ī 30-year veteran in the storage industry, Russell is Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, responsible for driving strategic product and go-to-market programs, spearheading industry engagement and evangelizing Veeam’s vision for the Cloud Data Management at key events across the globe and working with the Executive Leadership team in accelerating the company’s growth in the enterprise. Literally, the top reason making organizations interested in changing backup solutions is so that it works better! Beyond that, businesses are concerned about economics, best-in-class tools for protecting the increasingly diverse production workloads and platforms that organizations rely on, and so on. The short answer is qualitative improvement - e.g., reducing data loss, reducing downtime, improving reliability of backups (so you can restore), etc.

But for this first blog, we’ll stick to what we believe to be the two most important questions: Why will organizations change backup solutions in 2022? This year, the research survey included three additional question topics to better understand some of the latest trends in overall IT data protection strategy: Containers, Cyber-preparedness, and BC/DR.

Check out last year’s blog to understand how we cut 3,000+ responses. When most research includes between 200-400 responses, Veeam sponsored 10X that in order to then cut the data and better understand not just the global market and trends, but the nuances across countries, regions, vertical industries, etc. We say “largest” due to nearly 3,400 responses. Veeam is very excited to announce the latest and largest research report on data protection, as surveyed by an independent research firm.

Trend micro download trial