FEATURE : DISASTER RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY

Q & A with Komprise co-founder and COO Krishna Subramanian on managing unstructured data and data management techniques companies can employ to mitigate losses from cyber-attacks and other disasters .

Disasters are on the rise , from climate change , ransomware and cybersecurity attacks , geopolitical conflicts / wars and more . These disasters are increasingly expensive to cities and businesses . In In 2023 there were more billion-dollar-plus climate disasters than any other year , costing the US alone an estimated $ 92 billion , according to NOAA .

More than 72 % of businesses worldwide were affected by ransomware attacks and the average cost of an attack was $ 1.85 million , according to Statista and GetAstra , respectively .

Focusing on data protection is always paramount .

However , when you consider the growing volumes of unstructured data in the enterprise , which today constitutes at least 80 % of all data created and stored , treating all enterprise data the same is no longer viable .

Enterprise organizations typically create three copies of data and additional copies are needed beyond that for Disaster Recovery and ransomware protection .

Yet IT spending on storage – commonly at least 30 % of the IT budget – is not sustainable .

Enterprise IT must be able to deploy flexible and costeffective unstructured data replication and ongoing data lifecycle management policies to address the modern scale of data and increased Disaster Recovery requirements .

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