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 Nimble Storage has published the results of a survey of 150 enterprise data storage and backup professionals. The findings reveal that data storage administrators find complexity and cost to be the key challenges associated with backup and data recovery.
The Nimble Storage survey asked respondents to rate their challenges relating to storage, backup and disaster recovery. Over half of the respondents (53 percent) identified complexity of backup systems as the top challenge. In addition, 66 percent identified lengthy backup windows and tight budgets as major obstacles to managing storage and backup, with 52 percent estimating that a complete system backup would require between 12 and 48 hours.
Complicating the matter, 41 percent of storage professionals who responded to the survey said they administer 10 devices or more for storage, backup and disaster recovery: each with separate processes and management systems. In addition, 46 percent of the respondents stated that over half of their data in primary storage was not accessed on a daily or even a weekly basis.
In the survey, 40 percent of respondents acknowledged that their organizations had no satisfactory disaster recovery solution in place. The risks of being unprotected against an immediate company-wide IT disaster were high, said 32 percent of the respondents, who estimated that performing a complete restore after a company-wide IT disaster would cost their organization more than $500,000. Twenty percent of the respondents assessed the cost to be more than $1 million.
Survey methodology
The independent survey asked for the opinions of storage professionals in organizations conducting business in the US. More than two-thirds of respondents came from companies with between 200 and 5,000 employees.
Complete survey findings are available here.
•Date: 18th August 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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