More virus attacks cause for virtual defence review
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 18 October 2008, 01:48 IST
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Pune: Both virtual and physical breaches have been identified as the key factors driving Indian disaster recovery enterprises. The finding is based on the global research initiative conducted by Symantec. The company had surveyed 1000 enterprises worldwide to reassess their disaster recovery strategy. The main cause for concern in respondents was the increase in virus attacks. This made them revisit their disaster recovery plan. Out of the total recoveries 68 percent went for revaluation to avoid data loss. 54 percent relooked at their strategy to prevent malicious employee behavior. Anand Naik, Director said that continuous technological advancements such as virtualization and enterprise mobility had independently led 60 percent to re-examine their disaster recovery strategy on an ongoing basis. He also noted that the least critical applications were being virtualized. 60 percent of the enterprises revealed that implementing sever virtualization caused them to revaluate disaster recovery plans. 70 percent of enterprises had put databases , webservers and application servers in virtual environment. The challenges faced by enterprises included lack of enterprise storage management, insufficient back up tools , lack of enterprise high availability, lack of automated recovery and different tools for physical and virtual environments. Other details of the report revealed that 22 percent Indian enterprises conducted full disaster recovery tests only once a year. This was mainly because of perceived fear of business disruption and shortage of resources to conduct tests. 56 percent of companies cited reasons of lack of staff availability, 58 percent had reasons of disruption to employees, 44 percent budgetary issues and 46 percent cited reasons of disruption to customers. 32 percent admitted that their sales and revenue were affected by recovery testing. The repercussions of the report stated that disaster incidents put enterprises at risk and it would prove expensive if disaster disrupts mission critical applications. Baseline operations could be achieved only by 26 percent of respondents. 100 percent normal operations could be achieved by only 23 percent.

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