Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery -- Over One Thousand IT Sites Surveyed.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- A population of over one thousand IT sites was surveyed and questioned on their practices and plans for 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 recovery. Over one half of the respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. estimate that their entire company could be at risk if they are unable to recover critical data within 8 hours. Despite this risk, 17% of the surveyed population do not have a disaster recovery facility today. This report updates a one-year old study on the same topic, with additional emphasis given this year on market segmentation Market Segmentation A marketing term referring to the aggregating of prospective buyers into groups (segments) that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. , revenue tiers, disk utilization, and data tiers. Ten industries were primarily targeted. With close to one half of the sites having implemented remote replication, the Finance/Banking industry is the largest user. The number of sites using remote replication will more than double in the next two years, with Telecom and Health showing the highest growth. The number of sites utilizing multiple levels of data protection for different applications has more than doubled in the past 24 months and is poised for significant additional growth. In terms of features or techniques, disk-to-disk backup and SAN backup are the most widely implemented; remote replication, virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. and IP storage stand out as the highest growth market potential. Data security is a growing concern with the extended use of networks in general, and of storage networking in particular. While very few use encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science data on their storage media today, 45% believe it is a needed feature The analysis of this extensive survey which includes over 200 questions, is now available in a report titled "Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery -- A User's Perspective." The report provides statistics on practices, ranks issues and needs, indicates satisfaction ratings, and projects trends and plans. The price of this report is $4,950. It can be ordered at www.periconcepts.com or at www.tomcoughlin.com. The report is the joint work of Peripheral Concepts and Coughlin Associates. Peripheral Concepts, Inc. is 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. View their web at www.periconcepts.com, under Reports. Phone: 805-563-9491 Coughlin Associates provides consulting on data storage components, systems and applications. For more information go to www.tomcoughlin.com. |
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