There are lots of companies doing very well in this industry with targeted data management solutions to help alleviate these problems (I'm not sure that IT 'solutions' exist), however these backups aren't your typical database and document dumps. In today's UHD/HDR space you are looking at potentially petabytes of data for a single production - solely getting the data to tape for archive is a full time job for many in the industry, let alone administration of the systems themselves, which often need overhauling and reconfiguring between projects.
Please don't take this as me trying to detract from your post in any way - I agree with you on a great number of points, and we should all strive for ideals in day to day operations as it makes all our respective industries better. As a fairly crude analogy however, the tactician's view of the battlefield is often very different to that of the man in the trenches, and I've been on both sides of the coin. The film and TV space is incredibly dynamic, both in terms of hardware and software evolution, to the point where standardization is having a very hard time keeping up. It's this dynamism which keeps me coming back to work every day, but also contributes quite significantly to my rapidly receding hairline!