Information recovery planning is poor
22.05.12
GORDON SMITH
MORE THAN half of Irish organisations have no plan in place to recover their critical information should an unforeseen event occur, and almost as many have no strategy to keep their business running following a major disruption.
The findings are in research into data management practices released by the IT services firm MJ Flood Technology. It found 48 per cent of organisations admitted to having no business continuity plan, and 51 per cent have no disaster recovery (DR) procedures.
This lack of DR planning is consistent with surveys the firm carried out in 2007 and 2009. The current research was compiled in an online survey of 1,000 companies last October.
The survey found that some companies are following best practice in data management: 18 per cent said they could restore mission-critical applications within four hours if their comms room or data centre were destroyed; 23 per cent cited a recovery time of up to one business day and 22 per cent cited four business days or more.
Source: Irish Times