Backupify teamed up with IT community Spiceworks to produce a piece of research focused on how today's IT departments back up data in their SaaS applications. This slide deck reveals some surprising stats on how IT professionals deal with data in the cloud.

1. THE
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backup

2. WHAT WE DO
Simple, automated,
secure backup of your
cloud data

3. Calendar
Salesforce
Sites
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…and more
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BACK UP allYOUR
SAAS DATA

4. $131Billion
$677 Billion
2016
2013
EXPLOSIVE
GROWTH
FOR THE
CLOUD
Gartner Research "Forecast
Overview: Public Cloud Services,
Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q12
Update." February 2013

5. SURVEY BACKGROUND
TOTAL SURVEY SIZE:
MORE THAN 200 I.T. PROFESSIONALS
LOCATION OF RESPONDENTS:
U.S.
COMPANY SIZE:

6. SAAS APPLICATIONS
ARE COMING TO AN
OFFICE NEAR YOU
54%
of I.T. pros have
implemented some form
of SaaS applications
14%
plan to implement
SaaS apps in the next
6 months

7. THE MOST COMMON
SAAS APPLICATIONS
INCLUDE:

8. of I.T. pros that use or plan to use
SaaS apps categorize the data
stored in their SaaS apps as
“very to extremely
important”
81%

9. half
OF I.T. PROS DON’T
BACK UP THEIR
SAAS DATA
(or even plan to)
what’s
backup?

10. But why?!

11. read the fine print
YOUR SAAS PROVIDER MAY NOT BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR BACKING UP
YOUR DATA

12. 1 out of 3
COMPANIES USING SAAS
LOSE DATA

13. 47%
End-user
delete
17%
Employee
overwrote data
13%
Hacker
delete
10%
Ended SaaS
service
7%
Application
overwrote another
7%
Malicious
delete
why SAAS DATA LOSS HAPPENS

14. how I.T. PROS BACK UP SAAS DATA
28%
Through SaaS
provider’s API
47%
Manual export
15%
Cloud-to-cloud
backup vendor
25%
Other

15. how I.T. PROS BACK UP SAAS DATA
28%
Through SaaS
provider’s API
47%
Manual export
15%
Cloud-to-cloud
backup vendor
25%
Other
time-consuming
and cumbersome
for I.T. pros

16. how I.T. PROS BACK UP SAAS DATA
28%
Through SaaS
provider’s API
47%
Manual export
15%
Cloud-to-cloud
backup vendor
25%
Other
requires advanced
coding expertise

17. how I.T. PROS BACK UP SAAS DATA
28%
Through SaaS
provider’s API
47%
Manual export
15%
Cloud-to-cloud
backup vendor
25%
Other
saves time and
money

18. SO, what’s CLOUD-TO-CLOUD BACKUP?
“Cloud-to-cloud backup providers offer
an automated and simplified way to
backup copies of your critical data from
one cloud to another.”
– Rachel Dines, Forrester Research
Forrester Research "Back Up Your Critical Cloud Data Before Its Too Late" February 2014

19. WHAT I.T.
PROS LOOK
FOR IN A
BACKUP
PROVIDER
Security
Automated Backups
Centralized Management
Cost
Local Downloads
One-Click Restore
Search
Intuitive Online Archives
Full Account Export
Cloud Storage

20. to sum it up

21. 54%
of IT pros are using some form of SaaS
applications and companies are storing
more data than ever in cloud apps

22. and

23. 81%
of companies categorize this data as “very
to extremely important”

24. but

25. 52%
of companies aren’t backing up the data in
their SaaS applications

26. so

27. cloud-to-cloud
CONSIDER A
BACKUP SOLUTION AS AN I.T.
BEST PRACTICE TO PROTECT
COMPANY DATA

28. PROTECTING OVER 1.5PETABYTES OF DATA
INCLUDING 5.1BILLION E-MAILS
FOR OVER 7,000 COMPANIES
WHAT WE DO

29. questions?