| Survey reveals enterprise server backup and disaster recovery practices According to a new US survey, conducted by AmeriVault Corp., enterprises often leave their server backup tapes on-site in harms way, rather than removing them to an off-site location. The survey also found that, following a disaster, companies are expected to be and up and running quicker than they were a year ago and are not confident that their current technologies will meet their Recovery Time Objective. (The Recovery Time Objective is the timeframe in which a company’s critical systems are expected to be up and running following a disaster or outage.) Survey responses revealed: * Over 45 percent of enterprises surveyed leave their backup tapes on-site, leaving them vulnerable to natural disasters and security breaches. * Following a disaster, more than 30 percent of companies are expected to be up and running more quickly than they were a year ago. * Only 50 percent of enterprises are confident that they can meet their Recovery Time Objective (RTO) using their existing backup and recovery technologies. Conducted online, the survey examined the backup
and recovery practices of 114 companies within a variety of industries.
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6th August 2003 • Region:N.America
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