As organizations increase their reliance on SaaS platforms, new data from backup specialist Keepit shows how recovery readiness is evolving in response.
Based on anonymized real‑world backup and restore activity, the report reveals that recovery practices remain a work in progress for many, especially smaller, organizations — while larger enterprises increasingly demonstrate greater operational maturity through active recovery practices.
The report shows that nine in 10 enterprises have validated bulk recovery, demonstrating a maturity in their disaster recovery preparedness. However, identity systems are tested four times less often than productivity systems, even though losing identity access can prevent access to all other SaaS applications.
The findings also show that 90 percent of restores are single file downloads, indicating that simple data loss incidents are most common, and that IT administrators appreciate the ability to do granular, immediate recovery. Single‑file restores are familiar and useful, but they represent an early stage of readiness — not full validation for large‑scale incidents.
Jakob Østergaard, CTO at Keepit. Says:
The data shows that organizations are actively using their backups and, at scale, developing real recovery maturity — especially among larger enterprises that routinely validate bulk recovery,”
At the same time, the findings make it clear that confidence in recovery is built through practice. Simple, everyday restores are an important foundation, but structured testing and guided recovery are what turn backup into a repeatable, dependable capability. Backup is only effective when teams know they can recover the right data, in the right order, under real world pressure.
A key takeaway is that resilience is built through practice, not additional tools. Organizations that make recovery a routine, repeatable process — supported by structured testing and guided recovery — are better prepared to restore the right data, in the right order, at the right scale
You can get the full report from the Keepit site.
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