Firms confident on DR

UK enterprises have confidence in their disaster recovery solutions, despite neglecting a number of provisions that could improve their business continuity facilities, states One Stop Click.

Research carried out by IT security provider Databarracks indicates 91% of companies are confident in their solution, although 74% of these do not make use of encryption, replication or remote backup.

A further 67% consider their disaster recovery solution to be secure even though they do not check backup logs or test their restores to see if they are working adequately.

Interactive marketing services company Acxiom is introducing what it calls the first disaster recovery hosted solution for businesses, using Netezza data warehousing appliances, reports B to B.

Created through a partnership with Netezza, the new solution provides options for customers to recover data in a secure, off-site location.

The primary vertical markets Netezza serves are retailing, telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, and e-business. The company went public last year.

SafeData, a technology company focused on helping companies protect data, minimise downtime and recover and restore data quickly, unveiled its virtual recovery solution for the Windows platform, says Market Watch.

SafeData/DR for Windows provides organisations with virtualised backup and recovery, meeting rapid recovery time objectives at an affordable price point.

The SafeData/DR for Windows virtual recovery solution leverages an agentless backup appliance locally on the customer's network and virtualisation for on-demand server recovery at the backup location, to achieve a rapid recovery time objective.