Symantec announced the India findings of its sixth annual Symantec Disaster Recovery Study. The study demonstrates the growing challenge of managing disparate virtual, physical and cloud resources because of added complexity for organizations protecting and recovering mission critical applications and data. In addition, the study shows that virtual systems are not properly protected.
As Indian enterprises increasingly adopt virtualization, it is having a big impact on their disaster recovery plans. The study highlights that in India nearly 50 percent of data on virtual systems is not regularly backed up and only 10 percent of the data and mission-critical applications in virtual environments is protected by replication. The data also highlights that 70 percent of those surveyed were concerned about data loss as an impact of a disaster.
The study indicated that virtualization led 71 percent to reevaluate DR plans in 2010; this is up from the 61 percent reported by respondents in 2009.
“While Indian enterprises are adopting new technologies such as virtualization and the cloud to reduce costs, they are currently adding more complexity to their environments and leaving mission critical applications and data unprotected,” said Anand Naik, director, Systems Engineering, Symantec. “We expect to see enterprises adopt tools that provide a holistic solution with a consistent set of policies across all environments. Data center managers should simplify and standardize so they can focus on fundamental best practices that help reduce downtime.”
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