Research reveals data culture shift amongst UK PLC
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Nearly half of UK organisations have Furthermore, two thirds (66 per cent) procedures. Alastair Molyneux,
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changed the way they manage data stated that the top IT priority for 2009 business development manager
WSFILE
over the last 12 months, according to is to address the challenges posed by at Kroll Ontrack UK, said: “More
a survey by Kroll Ontrack, the leading the need to maintain data access. organisations are now aware of
provider of Ontrack Data Recovery Ensuring backups and archives are the value of data and the need to
solutions and legal technologies robust emerged as the top strategy manage it correctly. The next step
products and services. for achieving this essential is to help them understand how
requirement. to do this in an effective manner.
60 per cent of respondents cited that
the main reason for modifying data These findings represent a shift in For example, maintaining data
management practices was an attitude, with over a quarter of availability involves identifying
increase in the perceived value of respondents (27 per cent) saying that information that has to be stored
electronic information, followed by a the negative media attention paid to to comply with legislation as well
heightened importance of data data loss over the past 12 months as archiving valuable and
availability and business continuity has prompted them to review their proprietary data that may be
(40 per cent). organisations’ data security needed in the future.”
Financial organisations vulnerable to downtime
BakBone Software has disclosed the from the manufacturing sector do
findings of a poll of 100 UK IT not require such high data
decision makers, which found that availability, as the majority of
20% of organisations in the UK could systems are not directly linked to
not maintain normal operations if revenues and therefore are more
data was not accessible for up to one tolerant to slightly longer outages.
hour. For companies in the financial
services space this figure nearly “These findings are indicative of the
doubles to 37%. With one hour of current state of the market; despite
downtime equalling 99.99% of 24/365 organisations have such high the one-hour bar being a very high
uptime, these findings indicate how reliance on their data that they need benchmark, a fifth of respondents
important business continuity and the ability to access it almost see it as unacceptable. They cannot
data protection are to today’s constantly. As a result, 20% of the wait this long to regain access to
businesses. Despite the current survey respondents indicated that their data,” said Andrew Brewerton,
economic climate and the significant their corporate data cannot be technical director, BakBone.
costs traditionally associated with inaccessible for more than one hour “At BakBone our technology has
the implementation of high or they will not be able to operate always been about helping our
availability infrastructure, it is still normally. customers remain competitive, and
necessary for organisations to invest our recently released NetVault:
time and money to ensure data Not surprisingly, this percentage Real-Time Data Protector directly
availability. rises in the financial industry where addresses the continuous availability
companies are so reliant on needs of organisations, allowing
It is crucial for organisations to electronic information that loss of them to benefit from extremely
protect their data to generate data access for even one hour would fast and granular recovery of
revenue and meet SLAs. In today’s severely disrupt operations. In business-critical applications and
information-centric economy some comparison, 88% of respondents data.”
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