FEATURE: DISASTER RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
just backing up and restoring data, but also
extending business capabilities.
However, many organisations (40%) still
rely on legacy systems to protect their data
without fully appreciating the negative
impact this can have on their business. The
vast majority (95%) of organisations suffer
unexpected outages and on average, an
outage lasts 117 minutes (almost two hours).
Putting this into context, organisations
consider 51% of their data as ‘high
priority’ versus ‘normal’. An hour of
downtime from a high priority application
is estimated to cost US$67,651, while
this number is US$61,642 for a normal
application. With such a balance between
high priority and normal in percentages
and impact costs, it’s clear that ‘all data
matters’ and that downtime is intolerable
anywhere within today’s environments.
“Data protection is more important than ever
now to help organisations continue to meet
their operational IT demands while also
Claude Schuck, Regional Manager,
Middle East at Veeam
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