Most companies failing to test IT disaster recovery/failover systems often enough

A survey of more than 500 senior IT professionals reveals that 89 percent test their disaster recovery/failover systems once a year or less, leaving these companies vulnerable to technology and business failures in the event of a disaster.

In addition, some 70 percent of respondents said it would take at least four hours ( half a day) – and more than 50 percent stated it would take multiple days – for their servers to recover completely from failure , including restored software, configuration, and network and storage connectivity.

The survey, conducted by Brilliant Ideas, LLC for Scalent Systems, found that nearly 67 percent of respondents were only ‘minimally confident’ that their disaster recovery system would work as planned in the event of a disaster.

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•Date: 17th April 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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