SMB confidence in backup and disaster recovery Grows -
Despite 2011 being a tumultuous year, worldwide companies have grown more confident about their ability to back up and recover data and IT systems following a disaster.
thus indicates the index in 2012 Acronis Global Disaster Recovery, conducted by an independent research organization the Ponemon Institute, the supplier Acronis disaster recovery solutions Inc., Woburn, Mass. according to the survey, which surveyed nearly 6,000 SMEs in 18 countries, companies are 14 percent more confident in their abilities BDR than they were a year ago.
So why the change? "The survey results suggest that the 2011 natural disasters have been a catalyst for positive change with regard to most businesses testing their backup and DR operations," said Izzy Azeri, senior vice president and general manager, Americas , at Acronis.
But despite the positive results, some results of the survey are worrying :.
- companies continue to spend only about 10 percent of their IT budgets on BDR
- nearly half of the respondents feel executives are not supportive of their efforts to BDR.
- data growth continues unabated, with a typical SMB creates almost 40 terabytes of new data per year.
- human error is to blame for the downtime system, 60 percent of respondents.
- the downtime lasts system an average of 2.2 days costing each business $ 366,363 each year in lost productivity.
These findings Azeri said: "For all the positive aspects of the survey, too many negatives such strategic level that failure to get executive buy-in and the use of multiple disjointed solutions, linger when it comes to maintaining strategic digital assets in a secure business, protected and immediately available "Channel pros. taking note.
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