Symantec announced India's findings of its fifth annual IT Disaster Recovery
survey, which demonstrates rising disaster recovery (DR) pressures on
enterprises caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service level
requirements to mitigate risk to the business.
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Anand Naik
Director-Systems Engineering,
Symantec India |
Even as 79 percent of Indian enterprises faced computer system failures in
the last one year, virus attacks (67 percent) and fear of data loss (51 percent)
are the major initiators for disaster recovery plans in Indian enterprises.
Changes in technology infrastructure (e.g. virtualization, blade computing etc.)
natural disasters, pressures from customers, suppliers, and competition and
compliance factors are other major factors that prompt the Indian enterprises to
opt for a disaster recovery plan. Owing to disasters-67 percent of Indian
enterprises fear loss of data, while 63 percent of the enterprises are concerned
about damage to customer loyalty and 49 percent of the enterprises are concerned
about damage to competitive standing in the market.
“Disaster recovery is now a boardroom discussion in Indian enterprises. The
extent of dent and damage caused by downtime due to natural, manmade and system
disasters and the business continuity issues arising from it have made Indian
CIOs take a 360 degrees view on mitigation strategies,” said Anand Naik,
Director-Systems Engineering, Symantec India. “But as enterprises confront
complexities of protecting virtual environments, flat budgets and increasing
internal and external risks, disaster recovery strategies should be constantly
evaluated and upgraded,” he added. The fifth annual IT Disaster Recovery survey
highlights that while recovery time objectives were reduced to four hours in
2009, disaster recovery testing and virtualization are still major challenges
for enterprises. Respondents report that DR testing increasingly impacts
customers and revenue, and one in four tests fails.
DQC News Bureau