November 18 2020

Survey of 500 IT Decision Makers Brings Into Sharper Focus Challenges IT Leaders Face In a Business Climate That Is Dependent on Data

Research Also Shows Orgs Are Focused on Deploying Technologies That Can Simplify Data Infrastructure Operations and Reduce Costs -- Critical as Respondents Face Budget Cuts in 2021

San Jose, Calif. – November 18, 2020 – Cohesity announced today the results of a survey of 500 IT decision makers in the United States that highlights critical IT and data management challenges midsize and enterprise organizations are facing as companies prepare for 2021. The survey, commissioned by Cohesity and conducted by Vanson Bourne, included 250 respondents from midsize companies ($100M-$1B in revenue) and 250 from enterprise organizations ($1B+ in revenue).

Some of these challenges came to light as companies answered questions about their appetite for Data Management as a Service (DMaaS). With a DMaaS solution, organizations do not have to manage data infrastructure — it is managed for them. DMaaS provides organizations with easy access to backup and recovery, disaster recovery, archiving, file and object services, dev/test provisioning, data governance, and security — all through one vendor in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Key findings show:

“As 2020 comes to a close, it’s clear that IT teams are expected to face significant challenges in 2021,” said Matt Waxman, vice president, product management, Cohesity. “Research shows IT leaders are anxious for comprehensive solutions that will enable them to do more with data in ways that will help boost revenues and provide a competitive advantage at a time when they are also facing budget cuts, burnout, and turnover.”

The Growing Appetite for Technology that Simplifies IT and Data Management

As businesses look to simplify IT operations, be more cost efficient, and do more with data, respondents are very optimistic about the benefits of DMaaS, which include:

Choice Is the Name of the Game for IT in 2021

“The data also pinpoints another important IT trend in 2021: choice is critical,” said Waxman. “IT leaders want to manage data as they see fit.” With respect to choice, respondents stated:

For More Information:

About Vanson Bourne

Vanson Bourne is an independent specialist in market research for the technology sector. Their reputation for robust and credible research-based analysis is founded upon rigorous research principles and their ability to seek the opinions of senior decision makers across technical and business functions, in all business sectors and all major markets. For more information, visit www.vansonbourne.com

About Cohesity

Cohesity ushers in a new era in data management that solves a critical challenge facing businesses today: mass data fragmentation. The vast majority of enterprise data — backups, archives, file shares, object stores, and data used for dev/test and analytics — sits in fragmented infrastructure silos that make it hard to protect, expensive to manage, and difficult to analyze. Cohesity consolidates silos onto one web-scale platform, spanning on-premises, cloud, and the edge, and uniquely empowers organizations to run apps on that platform — making it easier than ever to back up and extract insights from data. Cohesity is a 2019 CNBC Disruptor and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Visit our website and blog, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and like us on Facebook.

Cohesity, the Cohesity logo, SnapTree, SpanFS, DataPlatform, DataProtect, Helios, and other Cohesity marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cohesity, Inc. in the US and/or internationally. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. 

Media Contacts

Doug Free

Director, Corporate Communications
doug.free@cohesity.com
650-868-3252

Icon ionic ios-globe

You are now leaving the German section of www.cohesity.com/de/ and come to an English section of the site. Please click if you want to continue.

Don't show this warning again

Icon ionic ios-globe

You are now leaving the German section of www.cohesity.com/de/ and come to an English section of the site. Please click if you want to continue.

Don't show this warning again