Peter Dinham
Thursday, 02 July 2009 14:28
IT Industry -
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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.
And, according to respondents to the survey,
this number will continue to grow throughout 2009, but more than half -
52 per cent globally and 55 per cent in Australia and New Zealand -
believed that budgets would be flat in 2010, making it more challenging
for IT management to better leverage their assets including hardware,
software and personnel.
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”.
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