Data protection, now more than ever, is providing peace of mind and ensuring business continuity. This report shows that by modernizing data protection with easy-to-use and flexible solutions, businesses can significantly increase data protection and usability while also freeing many resources to focus further on their IT modernization and management efforts.

While organizations already have a diverse mix of physical servers (29%), virtual machines (23%), and cloud-hosted servers (47%), the amount of cloud-hosted workloads within hybrid-IT environments is expected to grow even faster over the next two years. This fast-paced shift shows that recent events such as the global pandemic have accelerated an already-strong movement towards a more cloud-friendly and multi-cloud ecosystem. Key findings in this report include :