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Disaster recovery recognition on the up, study finds
Business leaders are placing greater priority on IT disaster recovery plans as they recognise the potential implications of an operational outage, a new report has concluded.
Around half of all the IT professionals questioned said that they believe outages of vital IT-enabled services for periods in excess of 24 hours could ultimately prove fatal to their businesses, research carried out by SteelEye Technology found.
In addition, some 87 per cent of C-level executives feel that average IT organisations faced more and greater threats to business continuity in 2007 than in the previous year.
Despite this growing recognition, just 40 per cent believe that the average IT organisation is now better prepared to deal with threats to business continuity than it was last year, with this proportion dropping to as low as 28 per cent among those employees who acknowledged that their chief executives had not prioritised disaster recovery and continuity.
Commenting on the findings, Bob Williamson, vice president of SteelEye Technology, noted: "Today's chief executives are clearly aware of the degree to which their businesses depend on technology, and they're concerned about the disasters that could occur if a key service stops running."
"What's also evident from this survey is that C-level priorities make a clear difference in how seriously IT takes business continuity assurance."
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