Execs must pay attention to DR

Top executives in Asia Pacific are not paying enough attention to disaster recovery efforts, according to a recent study by software firm Symantec, says Inquirer.net.

Disaster recovery (DR) refers to duplicating data (or backing up) and locating it outside of company premises. Technically, DR should allow the company to actually retrieve important data at any time.

Symantec's recent global DR survey covered around a thousand companies worldwide, about a third of which are from Asia Pacific, and all have 500 or more workers.

Empirix, which helps organisations adopt complex communications solutions with confidence, has made available a DMG Consulting research study titled: "Business as Usual? A Benchmarking Study of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for Contact Centres", states Market Watch.

The report, sponsored by Empirix, focuses on call centres and their plans for maintaining business operations in the event of an emergency.

The DR benchmarking study is the culmination of nearly 200 contact centres from all over the world surveyed on questions covering four key readiness areas: Disaster recovery and business continuity; applications and systems testing; ongoing verification of applications and call flows; and hosted infrastructure and applications.

IT media company TechTarget has released SearchDisasterRecovery.com to support the specialised information requirements of IT professionals managing and deploying disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives, and who are researching which solutions to purchase, reports Market Watch

In a recent SearchStorage.com/Storage magazine survey conducted by TechTarget, 54% of the respondents cited disaster recovery as the primary reason for building new data centres or renovating existing facilities.

In the same survey, 47% of respondents indicated they would increase their disaster recovery spending in 2008, while 38% said they would maintain 2007 spending levels.