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Pune, Oct. 14 Symantec, a player in the security, storage and systems management solutions, on Tuesday unveiled India-specific findings of its disaster recovery survey, a global research initiative that surveyed 1,000 enterprises worldwide.

Mr Anand Naik, Director, Systems Engineering, Symantec, said both virtual and physical breaches have been identified as the key factors driving Indian enterprises to reassess their disaster recovery strategy.

Seventy-four per cent of the respondents claimed that the increase in virus attacks had prompted them to revisit their disaster recovery plan, 68 per cent were going in for a revaluation to avoid data loss and 54 per cent re-looked at their strategy to prevent accidental or malicious employee behaviour.

Mr Naik said continuous technological advancements such as virtualisation and enterprise mobility had independently led 60 per cent to re-examine their disaster recovery strategy on an ongoing basis.

He noted that only the least critical applications were being virtualised (12 per cent) and 60 per cent of the enterprises revealed that implementing server virtualisation caused them to revaluate their disaster recovery plans.

Over 70 per cent of enterprises had put databases, Web servers and application servers in virtual environments.

The challenges included lack of enterprise storage management (62 per cent), insufficient backup tools (64 per cent), lack of enterprise high availability (42 per cent), lack of automated recovery (46 per cent) and different tools for physical and virtual environments (40 per cent).

Giving details about the key findings of the report, Mr Anand said that 22 per cent of Indian enterprises conducted full disaster recovery tests only once a year or less because of the perceived fear of business disruption and lack of resources to conduct tests. The reasons cited include lack of staff availability (56 per cent), disruption to employees (58 per cent), budgetary issues (44 per cent) and disruption to customers (46 per cent). In addition, 32 per cent admitted that disaster recovery testing could affect sales and revenue.

The report also noted that disaster incidents increasingly put enterprises at risk and the repercussions could be severe and expensive if disaster disrupts mission critical applications and services.

Only 26 per cent of respondents reported that they could achieve baseline operations within a day, 23 per cent reported it would take a full week to achieve 100 per cent normal operations.

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