Two-thirds of IT managers cite loss of business-critical
data and downtime of key IT systems as the greatest risk they face
in IT planning.
Research on IT data risk management was conducted for
CA by research and
analysis firm Freeform Dynamics.
The research includes responses from 715 IT managers in Europe
and the Middle East.
The study also found that the proliferation of data, which must
be stored in various locations and on various systems with
guaranteed recovery, also represents a major challenge for many IT
managers.
Of those surveyed, 62% expressed concerns about managing
distributed data storage. In addition, about one-third of IT
managers lack faith in decentralised storage of business-critical
information on servers, PCs, and mobile devices.
The study highlighted a disconnect between IT managers’ awareness
of risk and the action they take.
While 86% of respondents stress that losing business data would
hurt their company, 32% have not implemented a suitable service
level agreement (SLA) strategy to mitigate the risk of data loss
and set acceptable recovery time objectives.
Duncan Fisken, CA vice-president for solutions management EMEA,
said, “To effectively understand and address business risk, IT
managers must understand both the service-level requirements of the
business and the potential operational impact that infrastructure
events can have on those service levels.”
He said, “Managers who fail to develop this understanding won't
be able to design or implement appropriate data storage,
management, and recovery processes.”
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