Veeam Launches Strategic Framework to Close the Reality Gap in Data Resilience

Veeam® Software has unveiled the industry’s first Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM), a new framework empowers organisations to objectively assess their true resilience posture and take decisive, strategic action to close the gap between perception and reality to ensure their data is resilient in the face of growing cyber-attacks and outages.

The Veeam DRMM framework empowers leaders to assess and improve their data resilience by providing valuable insights for aligning people, processes, and technical capabilities with their overall data strategy.

This alignment helps minimise risk exposure while allowing organisations to concentrate on mission-critical objectives and sustain a competitive advantage.

Notably, the Veeam DRMM stands out as the only framework in the industry from a consortium of industry experts that delivers a holistic perspective on cyber resilience, disaster recovery (DR), and operational continuity across three key domains: data strategy, people and processes, and technology.

Joint research conducted by Veeam and McKinsey reveals a staggering disconnect: while 30% of CIOs believe their organisations are above average in data resilience, fewer than 10% actually are. This miscalculation is not just risky; it's reckless.

According to the report, IT downtime costs the Global 2000 over $400 billion annually, with $200 million in losses per company from outages, reputational damage, and operational disruption.

“The new Veeam DRMM is more than just a model; it’s a wake-up call that equips leaders with the tools and insights necessary to transform wishful thinking into actionable, radical resilience, enabling them to start protecting their data with the same urgency as they protect their revenue, employees, customers, and brand,” Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam, said.

Key findings from the Veeam DRMM research include:

• 74% of organisations fall short of best practices, operating at the two lowest levels of maturity.
• Organisations at the highest maturity level (the Best-in-Class horizon) recover from outages seven times faster, experience three times less downtime, and suffer four times less data loss than their peers.
• Alarmingly, over 30% of CIOs in the least resilient companies mistakenly believe their data resilience capabilities are better than they actually are, exposing their businesses to potential failure.

“This is the difference between shutting down operations during an outage or keeping the business running. It’s the difference between paying a ransom or not.  It provides the foundation for AI innovation, compliance, trust, and long-term performance – including competitive advantage," Eswaran added.