Manufacturing resilience rarely fails in the data centre. When things go wrong, the problem is generally where production happens. Yet Macrium’s recently published benchmark report, ‘State of Backup & Recovery in Manufacturing 2026’, highlights a stark imbalance at the heart of many resilience strategies. While most manufacturers have invested heavily in protecting IT workloads, only 54% of OT, ICS, and SCADA systems are backed up at all. The shortfall, the lack of backup protection on almost half of all manufacturing systems, is critical. OT systems are not peripheral. They run production lines, control physical processes, and determine whether operations continue or stop....
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