Gap Seen in Corporate America's Preparedness for Uninterrupted Access to Critical Data
Importance of business-critical information access not matched by corporate IT investment strategies, SunGard survey finds
Importance of business-critical information access not matched by corporate IT investment strategies, SunGard survey finds
Unplanned Disruptions Continue Increasing
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Unplanned Disruptions Continue Increasing
- Eighty percent of executives said it was more important to their organization to have an information infrastructure that is always available rather than being able to recover from a business disruption.
- Eighty-eight percent of executives said having information always available is a growing concern for their company's senior management.
- The majority of executives surveyed said their company is taking proactive steps to ensure employees and corporate information are connected, with the top options being establishing a primary site with redundancy built in and setting up a secondary offsite facility that exactly mirrors the primary site. Also of note, 27 percent of executives said their companies outsource business continuity services to a third-party provider.
- Seventy-three percent of executives expressed concern with the costs associated with maintaining a secondary data center and the required dual redundancy necessary to maintain the center.
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