Cloud and online backups gaining popularity Cloud and online backups have continued to increase in popularity, climbing from 23% in 2008 to 51% in 2021 4% still use tape as their only backup medium, unchanged since 2012 Combined disk and tape use has declined from a peak of 29% in 2012, to 15% Peter Groucutt, Managing Director of Databarracks, said: “When we first started the Data Health Check in 2008, almost a fifth of organizations were still using tape as their only backup medium.

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