15 percent or less are fully confident of recovering data in a disaster

15 percent or less are fully confident of recovering data in a disaster

In a new survey data protection specialist Arcserve reveals that while downtime is a top concern, many businesses lack confidence in their ability to recover data.

The study indicates that IT decision makers across America, Europe and Japan, 57 percent of respondents say they aren’t confident in their ability to recover their business data in the event of a downtime or disaster event. Only just over 14 percent say they feel very confident they could recover their data.

It was also reveal that over half at 56 percent that their customers don’t have a disaster recovery plan in place. Of those customers that do have a plan in place, 59 percent test it, at most, once a year.

This is a serious matter for IT departments that provide support for their clients that could lose their business due to lack of disaster recovery or even testing whether the backups work.

There’s some interesting variation between channel partners, service providers, and end-users, in terms of what they look for in a data protection vendor. Partners overwhelmingly rank brand name, or market familiarity, as one of their top three criteria when evaluating a vendor.

However, end-users say this is the least important factor when buying a data protection solution. 45 percent of end users say they consider ease of use and deployment as the number one purchasing criteria, followed by total price and integration with database applications.

So as the wise men said in the past about going cheap you will go broke.