Time to recover and reducing cost are the biggest backup challenges...

Double-Take Software has announced the results of a recent survey it carried out into backup and recovery issues. It found that 57 percent of IT organizations see reducing recovery time in the event of IT failure and cutting the cost of backup as the two biggest ‘pain-points’ for backup and disaster recovery. The next most significant difficulties were the ability to roll back to any point in time when recovering workloads and recovery testing.

Virtualization is already in place with the majority of those surveyed, with 86 percent of those questioned having a virtual infrastructure in place within their organizations.

Further findings from the survey include:

– Tape backup is the most popular technology involved for recovery of virtual machines, with 60 percent of organizations relying on tape to protect their virtualization implementations. 53 percent of organizations are using disk-to-disk backup products, while proprietary virtualization products such as VMware’s VMotion are used by 23 percent;

– 17 percent of organizations are only using tape backup for the backup / recovery of their virtual machines;

– The number of respondents that were able to judge their recovery point objectives (RPO) when it came to virtualized environments was much lower than those able to define their recovery time objectives (RTO) - only 45 percent of those surveyed were able to state their satisfaction level around their RPOs.

The survey, carried out at Storage Expo by Double-Take Software, received 169 responses across a range of vertical markets and company sizes.

http://www.doubletake.com/

•Date: 20th Nov 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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