Almost every organization experiences unexpected outages, according to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022.Among EMEA businesses, these are commonly caused by infrastructure or networking outages, server hardware failures, and application software faults. Furthermore, ransomware and other cyber threats are compounding the situation – with 51% of EMEA organizations suffering outages at the hands of a cyber-attack in the past 12 months.

This World Backup Day, Western Digital is offering solutions that offer an easy way to help people back up with varied options to suit storage needs.

Backing up is a key part of robust cybersecurity planning, but especially in today’s world with a 25% uptick in ransomware attacks from 2019 to 2020. And while ransomware victims paid nearly $30 million to get their data back, backup data is the quickest and cheapest way to mitigate the damage and recover from this kind of attack.