Bandwidth limiting data recovery

F5 Networks has published the results from 'The Impact of the WAN on Disaster Recovery Capabilities'. Over 75 percent of respondents considered that improving data recovery times and limiting data loss at a backup data centre and remote sites was a critical issue.

However many cited insufficient bandwidth as having a very strong impact on their ability to extend replication or remote backup data protection.

Survey results showed that 63 percent of polled companies agreed or strongly agreed that their current bandwidth prevents them from extending replication or remote backup protection to remote sites.

Spending on business continuity is set to increase this year, a poll of IT directors and senior managers has found, reports Computer World .

The survey of over 560 chief information officers, IT directors and IT managers in large and medium-sized enterprises worldwide found that over 80 percent saw business continuity as a priority for increased spending in 2007.

The senior IT managers identified disaster-tolerant systems, back-up and recovery, security and improved IT service management as other areas set for higher spending this year than in 2006.

ADP, has inaugurated its second centre in Pune, reports Business-Standard .

The company also announced its plan to grow to a 1000-people operation in the next two years. The Pune centre will work on R&D functions as well as provide business process outsourcing (BPO) services besides serving as the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (DRCP) centre for ADP India's Hyderabad operations.

ADP has 2,100 people in Hyderabad. "We have made $100 million investments in India since our inception here in 1999," said Gary Butler, president and chief executive officer, ADP.