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Information Technology News High DR test failure rate, downtime costs soar: report
Information Technology News High DR test failure rate, downtime costs soar: report | High DR test failure rate, downtime costs soar: report |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Thursday, 02 July 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 3 Symantec also reports that the annual median budget for
disaster recovery initiatives, including backup, recovery, clustering,
archiving, spare servers, replication, tape, services, disaster
recovery plan development and offsite costs at data centres surveyed,
is $50 million. Featured Whitepaper
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Symantec also says that 70 per cent of those businesses surveyed – including 66 per cent in Australia and New Zealand - reported that their disaster recovery committees involved the CIO, CTO or IT director – which, according to Symantec, is a significant increase from last year’s research where 33 per cent of respondents indicated executive involvement. And, Symantec suggests that as budgets increased over the past year, disaster recovery initiatives have become more of a “competitive differentiator”, and the impact of downtime on customers is greater than ever. Another reason for executive involvement, according to Symantec, is the increase of applications that are seen as mission critical. Sixty per cent of applications globally and 55 per cent in Australia and New Zealand were deemed mission critical by respondents, and nearly the same amount - 61 per cent in Australia and New Zealand - is covered in disaster recovery plans, with Symantec warning that any sort of outage to these systems will have an enormous impact to the business. Symantec says that over multiple years of its DR surveys, the lack of resources continues to be an issue, and it says the costs of downtime are “staggering”. CONTINUED page 3 |
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