IT priorities 2022: Ransomware and cloud drive storage and backup
Summary
But at the same time the challenge of unstructured data has also emerged as a priority, while on-prem disk storage – SAN and NAS – also retains importance. Those are some key findings in the Techtarget 2022 IT Priorities Survey, which questioned around 850 IT decision makers across Europe, of which 246 were in the UK and Ireland. Backup and data protection look to have been given heightened prominence by the huge rise in ransomware attacks this year. While the exact nature of that protection isn’t specified in the question, common methods of tackling a ransomware infection centre on being able to roll back to a previous clean state, so snapshots and backups are key. Also of note is that data archiving is a key 2022 priority for more than a quarter of respondents (28%) while tape projects are in the plans of 12% of those asked.