F5 Networks, Inc. has published the results of a recently commissioned Forrester Consulting study, ‘The Impact of the WAN on Disaster Recovery Capabilities’. Study results were compiled following a web-based survey of 504 companies with 1,000 or more employees in North America (200) and Europe (304), with the majority of participants reporting IT budgets ranging from $1 million to $100 million.

Over 75 percent of respondents considered that improving data recovery times and limiting data loss at a backup data center and remote sites was a critical issue, but many cited insufficient bandwidth as having a very strong impact on their ability to extend replication or remote backup data protection.

Survey results showed that 63 percent of polled companies agreed or strongly agreed that their current bandwidth prevents them from extending replication or remote backup protection to remote sites.

The 2007 study was commissioned by F5 to examine the impact of wide-area networks on business continuity and disaster recovery, with the sample set made up of leaders of IT, enterprise architecture, and network operations. Participants were asked about their current business continuity and disaster recovery efforts — including recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), and budget—as well as the effects of bandwidth constraints on data replication. The respondents indicated that business continuity and disaster recovery accounted for an average of 21 percent of their IT budget, with bandwidth accounting for 26 percent of total replication or remote backup costs.

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•Date: 30th March 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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