A third of UK businesses leave their back-up tapes in the office overnight

33 percent of small to medium sized enterprises in the UK leave their back-up tapes in the office at the end of the day, negating the benefit of backing up their servers, according to a new research report entitled ‘Risky Business’, published by Connect. Two thirds of businesses (69 percent) had never tested whether they could retrieve all the information held on their backups.

The survey was conducted by an independent research company on behalf of Connect and consisted of in-depth interviews with IT managers and directors at 151 UK companies in a range of industry sectors.

Other significant results from the research include:

* Back-up tapes are still the prevalent back-up technology used by UK SMEs – 89 percent of UK firms use back-up tapes to store their data;
* 10 percent of the SMEs surveyed by Connect have suffered a major data loss as a direct result of back-up failure;
* 33 percent of UK firms experience a major server problem every six months;
* 69 percent of small to medium-sized companies have not tested their backup systems in the last six months;
* Only 11 percent of the companies surveyed by Connect back up their data over the Internet to a secure offsite data centre.

•Date: 11th March 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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