In today’s digital economy, a business can’t afford to go down, even for a second. Enterprises seek to base most, if not all, decision making on insights drawn from data, which means there is no margin for error if the flow of that data is ever disrupted. For that reason, just about every organization has turned to data replication as an
essential tool within their availability and continuity strategies.

At least half were from enterprises with 5,000 or more employees. Industries heavily represented in our survey include financial services, technology services and manufacturing, healthcare and government agencies. A demographic overview is available at the end of the report.

The survey found that databases continue to expand in size and complexity, while at the same time, more enterprises are turning to cloud-based resources to keep information highly available.