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Business continuity statistics and research

The Continuity Central debate: is GRC business continuity’s future?
Debate The results of a Continuity Central hosted survey and discussion show that a significant majority of business continuity professionals see the future integration of GRC and BCM as a positive thing.

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Benefits of business continuity plans surveyed by British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) and the UK Cabinet Office
As well as helping organizations continue in business after an incident, BC plans reduce insurance premiums and open doors to new markets.
2012 business continuity horizon scan
The Business Continuity Institute has published survey findings on the top threats to business continuity in 2012.
Latest worldwide research

Survey looks at business continuity and the cloud
23 percent of respondents have incorporated cloud services into their business continuity and disaster recovery strategies; and 28 percent will do so within 24 months.

Supply chain business continuity issues examined
Business Continuity Institute survey finds that 40 percent of supply chain disruption originated below the immediate supplier.

Business continuity and disaster recovery budgets remain stable
Average business continuity and disaster recovery budgets stay at six percent of IT operating and capital budgets: Forrester.

Data loss in virtual environments is a widespread issue
Kroll Ontrack survey finds that 65 percent of organizations are experiencing frequent data loss from virtual environments.

CommVault releases results of annual end-user virtualization survey
Survey shows a groundswell of support for running business-critical applications on virtual machines in the production environment.

Europe

Disaster recovery planning in European organizations
Survey looks at the current state of play and highlights seven key enablers of effective disaster recovery.

The European Disaster Recovery Survey 2011
Systems failure resulted on average in two lost working days for the businesses in the survey.

Australia / New Zealand

Data protection and disaster recovery in Australian businesses
Survey finds that 23 percent don’t achieve their recovery time and recovery point objectives during disaster recovery tests.

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North America

Disaster recovery failing to catch up with virtualization and cloud: Acronis Survey
US SMBs relying on inadequate backup and disaster recovery methods

The 2011 AT&T Business Continuity Study
AT&T has published the results of its annual survey into business continuity planning in the US.

‘Preparedness in the Private Sector – 2011’
Key findings from a new Conference Board report.

The 9/11 Opinion Survey
A survey has been published which explores Americans’ attitudes to terrorism and natural disasters and how they have changed since 9/11. Interestingly it compares the views of emergency management professionals with those of non-professional individuals.

UK

Survey highlights inability of companies to test London 2012 business continuity plans
Organizations don’t feel that they have enough information to properly test plans.

Survey provides a global snapshot of business continuity and disaster recovery practices
The latest global business survey from Regus has interviewed over 12,000 senior business people in 85 countries about business continuity and IT disaster recovery in their organization.

Many business continuity and disaster recovery strategies are out of date: survey
Over 50 percent of organizations responding to a recent survey had not updated business continuity or disaster recovery strategies in the past two years.

New report looks into business continuity trailblazing practices
Examines organizations that are leading the way in business continuity management.


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