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81% of APAC and Japan businesses unable to recover lost data

 

81% of APAC and Japan businesses unable to recover lost data

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By StorageAsia Editors | May 10, 2012

According to an EMC survey, 81% of companies in the Asia Pacific and Japan not very confident of recovering systems or data fully in the event of a disaster. A further 71% of organizations surveyed  lost data or suffered systems downtime in the last 12 months.
 
The survey, commissioned by EMC and conducted by Vanson Bourne, interviewed 2,500 IT decision-makers in private and public sector organizations in Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The organizations ranged between 250 and 3000-plus employees and spanned verticles including manufacturing, retail, financial services and telecoms.

Survey results showed the three most common causes of data loss and downtime are:
  1. Hardware failure: 60%
  2. Data corruption: 49%
  3. Loss of power: 44%
Just 20% of respondents citi natural disasters as a cause of systems downtime or data loss, and 17% of respondents attributing systems downtime or data loss to employee sabotage.  Regardless of the cause, 60% of organizations reviewed and changed their procedures for backup and recovery in response to an incident.

Furthermore, 51% of businesses increased their spending on backup and recovery after a disaster. This is against a backdrop where 31% of organizations surveyed did not feel they were spending enough on backup and recovery. On average, the research found that businesses across the region are spending 10.48% of their IT budgets on backup and recovery.
 
The study identified the top three measurable impacts from downtime as:
  1. Loss of employee productivity: 42%
  2. Loss of revenue: 40%
  3. Delay in product/service development: 39%
 
 
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