High on the list of the 25 worst IT sins, according to industry magazine Computerwoche, are "Not creating backups" and "Not distributing backups." Mistakes that apparently are being made less often, if one goes by the continuous growth in the number of companies implementing backup and disaster recovery concepts with the cloud instead of on-premises. This is the result of a recent survey of more than 800 U.S.-based IT managers, conducted by backup expert Unitrends. According to the report, the proportion of companies that use cloud capacities for data backup and disaster recovery has risen by 22 percent since 2016 to well over half (59 percent).