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 63 percent of European organizations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. The research questioned small and medium sized organizations and found that only 10 percent of companies are confident that they could recover their systems within an hour after a disaster such as a hardware crash or computer virus has struck.
Companies are living dangerously when it comes to backup and recovery processes. A quarter of companies (25 percent) still back up their PCs and laptops manually, but more concerning is that a fifth (19 percent) do not carry out backups on these individual devices at all. When you consider that up to 60 percent of corporate data is held on workstations, as opposed to being backed up to a server, organizations are putting their critical information at risk every day.
UK firms in particular are far less likely to backup workstations than their French and German counterparts, with 38 percent of UK firms failing to backup workstations at all.
The survey was conducted by Acronis and research house Vanson Bourne. The sample consisted of 600 small and mid-market organizations. Respondents were those within the organization responsible for IT.
www.acronis.com
•Date: 10th March 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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