By silicon.com, 28 April 2004 12:45
NEWS 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.
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