Why your Software as a Service should be backed up? Recent financial reports demonstrate the success of cloud businesses. The transition to the cloud is in progress, but not enough organisations are examining a crucial aspect of this growth: the significant increase in unprotected data created by SaaS.
Enterprise SaaS is expanding rapidly. It is evident why Gartner predicts that end-user spending on SaaS will increase by more than 18 percent, from $145.5 billion in 2021 to $171.9 billion in 2022. SaaS provides significant benefits to both service providers and customers, including lower costs and simplified management and maintenance.
However, despite its rapid growth and numerous advantages, there are significant challenges associated with managing and protecting SaaS data.
Every cloud service provider (CSP) and software as a service (SaaS) has its own data retention policy, and once that policy expires, the customer is responsible for backing up, protecting, and, if necessary, restoring the data in the event of a cyber attack such as ransomware.
Consider Microsoft 365 as an instance. Adoption of Microsoft 365 has been exponential, with close to 300 million users and subscriber growth of over 50 percent in the past two years alone. Even though it is one of the most popular enterprise SaaS applications, Azure data storage backup options are limited.
Data is a company’s most valuable competitive asset; therefore, it is optimal to have your own data backup, protection, and recovery service in place.
Bring your SaaS data into your central data management system with a single set of policies for all data to simplify data management.
Initiate a proof-of-concept with a Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) solution that enables you to add SaaS data backup and protection without adding infrastructure, allowing you to devote more time to other mission-critical activities.
Protect your data as you transition to the cloud — on-premises, in the cloud, or a combination of these options — as you navigate and leverage a hybrid, multicloud environment.
Regardless of the path you choose, be sure to back up your SaaS. In the coming months and years, the amount of information and data generated by SaaS will continue to increase, and a company’s data and risk management strategy must include a backup and protection strategy for all data.
