Two-thirds of UK companies lack confidence in their ability to recover Microsoft Exchange

Mimosa Systems has published the results of an informal survey into the data storage thoughts of end users, IT managers and IT companies. Conducted at Infosec 2008, the survey found that two-thirds of respondents lack confidence in their company’s ability to completely recover their Microsoft Exchange servers in the event of a failure or disaster.

The majority of respondents who had experienced Microsoft Exchange server failure reported that it took hours to recover the failed server, with the average failure leaving employees without their most critical business application for almost a third of their working day.

In addition, the survey identified that the responsibility for recovering individual emails, either lost or accidentally deleted, still falls squarely onto the shoulders of the IT manager, with 75 percent of firms surveyed confirming that employees lack the ability to search and recover from email archives without IT support. Recovering lost or deleted emails remains a highly time-intensive task, with IT departments claiming they take, on average, more than five hours to manually search and recover a single email.

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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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