As organizational data becomes more valuable and threats constantly evolve, businesses must ask themselves if they are doing enough when it comes to keeping their data safe. The challenges are clear: organizations are creating vast quantities of business-critical data which is being spread across multiple different environments and creating more risk. 

Meanwhile, IT staff are stretched thin due to a global talent shortage, and simply cannot take on more work. The digital talent shortage has been particularly challenging for businesses. In fact, recent research shows that as tech job vacancies continue to skyrocket, two-thirds of digital leaders are unable to keep pace with change because of the talent they need. 

These IT teams are all too often running from behind to ensure this data is protected and managed efficiently. However, to keep their business resilient and on pace with growth, they must advance their core functions of data management and protection. To do so, IT teams need to ask themselves the million dollar question: how do we streamline data management to increase efficiencies, while also ensuring data is secure from threats?

Businesses need a single solution that can meet these requirements. An approach that is grounded on the simplicity, scalability and security of the cloud is the only way to deliver on such a promise.

A cloud-first approach enables organizations to maximize their data’s value to the fullest extent, while also addressing the core challenges every business is facing. IDC predicts that by 2025, 55 percent of organizations will have migrated their data protection systems to a cloud-centric model to ultimately simplify management and protection. 

So, what is a data resiliency cloud? A data resiliency cloud is a modern platform that delivers automated capabilities designed to keep a business protected and efficient. By leveraging the elasticity and efficiency of the cloud, organizations can take advantage of unlimited resources and additional layers of protection that will enhance their cyber and data resiliency. 

The Key Pillars 

• Centralized Model: allows an enterprise to bring all data related operations into one single platform. A centralized system will break down silos and integrate data management functions automatically without IT oversight. This convergence of management into one interface, no matter where data is located, makes the task of data protection, security and above all resiliency, incredibly less resource-intensive.
• Comprehensive Control Pane: supports multiple clouds will enable this functionality and help businesses regain control of their data environments. A multi-cloud control pane is built off three principles including no infrastructure, global policies, and self-service with central oversight. Without infrastructure, businesses can run and scale in any environment, and with global policies, they will have oversight across all environments. A self-service functionality will also help IT teams delegate responsibility to certain application owners, while retaining centralised control. 
• Zero Trust Approach: ensures that different layers of the security stack work independently from each other. This mindset is about always assuming that layers above and below one another are already compromised. It’s about never trusting, and always verifying. 
• Autonomous: automated capabilities can detect threats and keep a business’ protection environment up to date on security updates, security patches and best practices without depending on any people. This eliminates daily management and allows IT teams to focus on larger priority tasks that add greater value to the business. In addition, an autonomous engine is able to provide insights into unusual activity which helps businesses to rapidly detect, fight and mitigate internal and external threats. 
• Simplified Cloud Experience: which means that the solution is 100% SaaS and designed for the cloud – not just ported. With SaaS there is no hardware to invest in or manage. Organizations can reduce costs by never needing to buy or install software applications themselves, only paying for what they actually use.

Choosing What is Right for the Business

Data environments are only becoming more complex, and cyber threats are more severe and destructive. Companies need to move past legacy approaches to achieve resiliency, and leveraging the cloud is a great place to start. A data resiliency cloud provides organizations with unlimited resources to protect their data. When such a system has all five pillars: aCentralised Model, aComprehensive Control Pane, a Zero-Trust Approach, Fully Automated Operations, and a Cloud-Native Experience  – organizations will be able to remain resilient no matter what gets thrown their way in the future.