Firms 'falsely confident on disaster recovery'
News Article - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 13:18
Filed under: IT Security & Business Continuity
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 UK enterprises have confidence in their disaster recovery solutions, despite neglecting a number of provisions that could improve their business continuity facilities, it has been revealed.
Research carried out by IT security provider Databarracks indicates 91 per cent of companies are confident in their solution, although 74 per cent of these do not make use of encryption, replication or remote backup.
A further 67 per cent consider their disaster recovery solution to be secure even though they do not check backup logs or test their restores to see if they are working adequately.
Peter Groucutt, managing director at the company, said: "These days it is not enough to blindly trust that backups are being completed properly. Businesses and the regulatory environment in which we all exist demand fast and reliable recovery time objectives for IT systems."
He added that software development has seen an improvement since 2006, meaning a higher percentage of data loss is now caused by human error - as opposed to technology failure.
Earlier this week, Data Storage Connection claimed virtualisation can simplify the management of disaster recovery while lowering power consumption and overhead costs.
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