SMEs still exposed to data loss
Small businesses that have no backup regime and no business contingency plans in place are exposed to the dangers of data loss, according to experts and researchers.
Research conducted by www.BackUpMyStuff.co.uk and www.PCReview.co.uk on over 2 000 PC users reveals that 53% don`t take regular copies of files and images.
Not backing up data could have serious consequences for business, Living-IT reports. In 2003 the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry found that 90% of businesses that lost data and had no disaster recovery in place were forced to shut within two years.
A survey by a company called TNS found that only 37% of SMEs have a business continuity plan in place and few small businesses, it points out, will have the cash-flow or available resources to cope with a major incident.
Continuous data protection in the spotlight
Revivio hope to push continuous data protection(CDP) into the spotlight at the Securities Industry Association`s Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Conference and Exhibition, being held at the Marriott, New York, from 25 to 26 October.
CDP has been touted for its ability to address both recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) simultaneously, according to a release from Revivio.
"There are three primary factors are associated with data recovery: RTO or the amount of time it takes to recover from a failure scenario; RPO which indicates how much data will be lost when recovering from a significant failure; and cost. With a good CDP solution, RTO goes down significantly, but perhaps more importantly - it significantly reduces RPO as well. This is because datacentres have traditionally faced a 24 hour data loss potential in a nightly back-up scenario. With CDP`s ability to allow you to go back to near to or to any point in time, RPO can be very, very low to near zero. CDP`s key differentiator is in its ability to address both RTO and RPO simultaneously, however it also offers hard cost savings in disk, tape and management costs," said Ray Paquet, managing VP at Gartner, in a recent Web cast.
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