Tag: backup as a Service (Baas)

The C-suite has long left data resilience and cybersecurity in the hands of security and IT teams. It has been a case of ‘leave it to the experts’, and for a long time, that made sense. But as organisations have become increasingly dependent on technology and breaches have become a case of ‘when’ rather than ‘if,’ cybersecurity has become a part of everyone’s day-to-day.

In recent years many more organisations have embraced Software as a Service (SaaS), particularly Backup as a Service (BaaS) as more and more workloads have migrated into the cloud. In Africa, this migration to the cloud is being led by smaller enterprises without the legacy infrastructure and investment, whereas the larger businesses have shifted critical workloads in order to gain agility advantages.

The Cloud Protection Trends Report 2023, covers four key 'as a Service' scenarios: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service (BaaS/DRaaS).

Data protection challenges are undermining organisations’ abilities to execute digital transformation initiatives globally, according to the Data Protection Report 2021, which has found that 58% of backups fail, leaving data unprotected.

The benefits of migrating into the cloud have long been evident. However, certain challenges have held the Financial Services Industry (FSI) organisations back from fully embracing the flexibility, agility and cost effectiveness of cloud-based solutions, particularly with regard to data storage.