- CNET NETWORKS UK BUSINESS SITES:
- atlarge.com
- BNET UK
- silicon.com
- SmartPlanet.com
- ZDNet.co.uk
Still a growing market...
By silicon.com
Published: 28 April 2004 12:45 BST
28.04.99: Less than eight per cent of companies will turn to a disaster-recovery unit at the time of a crisis, according to an Ontrack survey of 8,000 users.
The research found that instead, nearly 70 per cent of users will try to recover data on their own or ask a friend for advice. But Ben Allen, general manager of Ontrack Data Recovery, warned that when dealing with mission-critical data, this can do more harm than good. "It can often make data that was recoverable, permanently lost," he said.
28.04.04: Disaster recovery is still not being treated with the priority it should be by firms in the UK, with many also failing to properly implement what policies they do have in place.
However, worst case scenarios - such as terrorist attacks, city-wide black-outs and natural disasters, which have all struck businesses in the past few years, have all highlighted the need for robust business continuity - even if such concerns are often seen as cold-hearted when such events also result in loss of life.
More likely to bring a company's business to its knees, however, are its own employees.
And the message is slowly sinking in.
IDC figures predict the back-up recovery market will increase from $3bn in 2001 to $4.2bn in 2006. The broader business-continuity market will expand from $29.9bn in 2001 to $54.9bn in 2006.
Significant understanding of the server OS and storage technologies used to achieve high levels of business continuity and disaster recovery for web ...
Significant understanding of the server OS and storage technologies used to achieve high levels of business continuity and disaster recovery for web ...
Develop policies, procedures, reporting and documentation for voice system solutions and services Assist with the production and maintenance of ...
CIO50 2008
The silicon.com CIO50 2008 profiles the most influential and innovative tech chiefs in the UK across all industries and organisation size, from the biggest FTSE100 companies to high growth dot-com start ups and the public sector. The list was voted on by the UK CIO community and a panel of experts. Find out more in our latest special report.
Stories from the web...
Copyright ©1995-2008 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Top of page
Digg
Slashdot
Del.ici.ous
Stumble
Reddit
RSS Feeds
Peter Cochrane Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction? Or could it finally be happening…
Clive Longbottom Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves Microsoft Virtualisation scores while its SOA bores...