Company DR tests fail

Symantec has released the findings of an international study, indicating that 91% of IT organisations carry out full scenario testing of their disaster recovery (DR) plans, but nearly 50% of those tests fail, reports CNN Money.

These incidents of DR testing failures put companies at risk for negative and expensive consequences if a disaster disrupts mission-critical applications and services.

The study also found that the most feared consequences of disasters, including the company suffering harm to its brand and reputation.

Syncsort`s new release of Backup Express offers data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities, according to ThomasNet.

The company delivers a high-value end-to-end solution to ensure it will be able to meet stringent SLAs (service level agreements)," comments Dan Regan, senior VP of Syncsort.

Syncsort not only offers a disk-to-disk solution, but also a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, for archiving to tape, as well as automated failover to tape in the event of a recovery interruption.

SMEs need to make disaster recovery strategies a priority in order to ensure they can survive such eventualities, says Hitachi Data Systems, according to OneStopClick.

The firm`s UK MD Steve Murphy says: "Putting in place a tested business continuity plan is extremely important for all businesses," adding that this was especially true for SMEs, which "rarely have the reserves necessary to pick up the business after a disaster".

He added that the "key" element of such a plan should be data backup, which ensures information is not lost in the event of incidents such as flood or fire.