Welcome to our first Storage magazine eNewsletter for 2023, which includes a sobering piece that suggests that far too many organisations are relying on absurdly outdated infrastructure to protect their data from ever-evolving threats.

Research by Cohesity revealed that some respondents are expecting legacy systems that are over 20 years old to stand up to the latest ransomware attacks, despite being designed decades before the modern multi-cloud era.

Almost half (49.4%) of respondents in the UK said that their organisation relies on primary backup and recovery infrastructure that was designed in, or before, 2010. Among that group, 27 percent claim to utilise technology that was either designed between 2000-2005, or in fact, before the new millennium.

"In 2022, the fact that any organisation is using technology to manage their data that was designed in the 1990s is frightening given that data can be compromised, exfiltrated, held hostage, and it can create massive compliance issues for organisations," says Brian Spanswick, Cohesity's CISO.

Almost thirty percent of those surveyed described 'antiquated backup and recovery systems' as one of the main barriers to getting their organisation back up and running after a successful ransomware attack. I sincerely hope none of our readers are among those organisations!

David Tyler, Editor
Storage magazine

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