Small businesses understand the importance of disaster recovery but fail to act

A survey of 237 small business conducted by Small Business Pipeline has found that 73 percent have no written disaster recovery plan. This is despite the fact that 35 percent ranked disaster recovery as equally important to other business functions such as customer service, technology operations, finance etc and 34 percent said that disaster recovery is more important. Just 31 percent said it's less important.

Where disaster recovery is concerned, knowledge of its importance does not seem to follow through into action.

The survey found a strong emphasis on data and systems protection among small businesses. 37 percent of respondents said that technology-driven threats pose the greatest business interruption threat, followed by:
* Disaster such as fires or explosions (27 percent)
* Natural disaster such as weather, earthquakes, (26 percent)
* Theft or loss of intellectual property, (7 percent).

Asked to identify their primary means of protecting data, 43 percent of respondents reported that they ‘backup data to an off-site facility we own/manage’, 28 percent ‘backup data to servers or systems in the same office as primary systems’, and 20 percent ‘backup data to a third-party facility.

http://www.smallbizpipeline.com/

•Date: 5th May 2004 •Region: UK / N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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