42% of disaster recovery strategies dead or dormant
Blackberry outage could happen to almost half of businesses, says ControlCircle, following UK survey
UK businesses are still ill-prepared to deal with downtime and unexpected disruption to operations, says ControlCircle, a leading UK managed services provider.
A recent survey of 100 CIOs/COOs/IT heads identified that whilst 90% had a strategy in place, only 46% had reviewed and tested their business continuity procedures in the last twelve months. 42% had either no strategy in place or were unsure when it was last tested. Over 50% of strategies were more than two years old.
In addition, more than 50% of those surveyed said it would take several hours for systems to be restored in the event of a disaster or fault. Over one third of those surveyed admitted it would take in excess of 24 hours to resume normal business operations.
“As shocking as these results are, they are consistent with our anecdotal conversations and insight into many organisations today”, said ControlCircle CEO Carmen Carey. “Most organisations see disaster recovery as a considerable expense to the business when in reality, it’s the cost of downtime that is immeasurable. Imagine how much damage you can do to your brand with three days of downtime?
Companies should be reviewing minutes versus hours as part of their strategy, especially now so much of today’s business is based online.”
ControlCircle partners with NetApp, the storage and data management solutions company, to put mission-critical failover systems in place at major UK corporations.
“Having a Disaster Recovery Service is essential for customers who are building a comprehensive cloud environment. In today’s environment, businesses demand 24/7 connectivity and companies require systems that ensure continued operational flexibility if the worse should happen,” said Pete Rawden, Partner Sales Director, UK & Ireland at NetApp. “Customers need assurance of efficient and flexible IT, so business users can work without restrictions. This is why we welcome ControlCircle bringing new services to customers in this space, based on NetApp technology.”
For further information on the survey, please contact Phillippa Chinery at ControlCircle, Phillippa.Chinery@ControlCircle.com. The survey was conducted by ControlCircle’s inside sales team, over October 2011. It asked CIOs, COOs and heads of IT departments a series of questions relating to disaster recovery strategy, including details of implementation, review and activate times.
About ControlCircle
ControlCircle is a privately owned company, founded in 2001 to provide solutions ranging from secure hosting and global connectivity to managing all security, networking, server and database technologies covering a full range of market sectors.
The company offers highly skilled and vastly experienced data specialists who design and support resilient enterprise hosting solutions, built on highly available platforms backed by ultra reliable support.
Customers include many of the World’s largest online businesses and blue chip companies in the banking, legal, accounting and commercial sectors. They rely on our industry knowledge, technical expertise, innovation, accuracy and skilful team management.
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NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp’s passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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