Business Continuance -- Over One Thousand IT Sites Surveyed.Business Editors SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2003 Peripheral Concepts, Inc. today announced the availability of a market analysis based on a survey of over one thousand IT managers with sites totaling 320 petabytes of disk storage and 1,050 petabytes of nearline tape storage. The study analyzes business continuance The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court to a later date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to a motion made by a party to a lawsuit. and disaster protection practices and plans. The survey targeted nine industries. In response to the recovery deficiencies exposed in the aftermath of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks, the Finance, Telecommunication and Transportation industries have led the way in implementing reliable business continuance systems. Education, Health, and Retail Distribution are poised for major changes in the next two years. While it is possible to build a new location from scratch, and restore data from backup tape See tape backup. when disaster strikes, it is inconceivable today to most of the surveyed population, at least for the critical part of their data. The survey reveals that 80% of the enterprises have a disaster recovery process in place. Remote hot sites are poised for significant growth. The share of company-owned disaster recovery sites will decrease in favor of recovery facilities located at a co-locator and operated by the enterprise. Two metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. characterize disaster recovery plans: recovery time objective (RTO (Recovery Time Objective) The amount of time a computer system or application can stop functioning before it is considered intolerable to the enterprise. It can be computed to be from seconds to days, depending on how critical the application is to the organization. ) and recovery point objective (RPO RPO Recruitment Process Outsourcing RPO Recovery Point Objective (disaster recovery) RPO Royal Philharmonic Orchestra RPO Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra RPO Representative Poetry Online RPO Railway Post Office ). Most surveyed sites measure them in hours, some in minutes. Those use mirroring and a protection solution that works in real time. Among the major breakthroughs revolutionizing data protection implementations and plans are the extended use of remote replication, the widespread deployment of SAN's, and the increased utilization of Disk-to-Disk. Sites using remote replication will more than double in the next two years. Slow recovery from system failure stands out as the most critical problem plaguing business continuity. Cost shows as a major concern to smaller organizations, and the cost of bandwidth remains the major impediment A disability or obstruction that prevents an individual from entering into a contract. Infancy, for example, is an impediment in making certain contracts. Impediments to marriage include such factors as consanguinity between the parties or an earlier marriage that is still valid. to implementing an optimal Data protection solution. The report entitled "Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery - A User's Perspective" concludes a two-part survey on data protection. A separate report published in May 2003 covers Backup and Archive. Peripheral Concepts, Inc., a leading consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a specializing in storage and storage management, hosts the yearly Network Storage Conference. You can contact them, or get more details at www.periconcepts.com under Reports. Key Word: STORAGE |
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