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Almost all the companies in the Asia Pacific region seem to have had issues with downtime and data loss with their technology infrastructure over the last one year. This revelation comes from the Disaster Recovery Survey report generated by CA Technologies.
The data was released on Wednesday during the media symposium conducted held at Singapore. The survey was conducted in eight countries. Of the 1,086 companies surveyed, which included small, medium and large organisations, 95 per cent faced data loss in some form or the other. These companies are predominantly from finance, public sector, retail and manufacturing verticals.
Inadequate or even lack of data recovery strategies had led to the data loss in the Asia-Pacific universe. The survey also showed that just only 27 per cent of the companies surveyed had a comprehensive data recovery plan in place.
Mr Chris Ross, Vice-President EMEA & Asia-Pacific, pointed out that the previous survey has shown the cost of outages to a company over a year is EMEA is $350,000 which can be avoided with sound data protection and recovery plan.
Cloud solutions
Cloud computing allows customers to convert capital expenditure to operating expenditure, by virtue of their not having to invest in hardware and data centres themselves. Going forward, around 42 per cent of the companies plan to use cloud computing for their overall data protection strategy. In India, 53 per cent of the companies surveyed have plans to adopt the cloud over the next 12 months.
Almost all the companies surveyed have seen their data protection budgets remain flat or increase from 2010 to 2011, with one third enjoying increased investments.
Hybrid cloud
In the current fiscal, more than half of companies plan to focus investments on managing a hybrid cloud environment, where private clouds are supplemented with access to resources in public clouds. One third plan to invest in using public cloud as a backup solution and rest plan to focus on better protection of their private cloud.
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