UK businesses may be putting themselves at risk with an
indifferent attitude towards business continuity, according to
a survey of 950 firms across Europe, the Middle East and
Africa.
The survey, by Vanson Bourne for Hitachi Data Systems, found
that just 19% of UK businesses rate disaster recovery and business
continuity as an important driver behind their
storage investment, and 6% said it was not important.
Across the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, nearly a
third of companies surveyed considered business continuity a top
driver behind storage investment.
The research also revealed that 13% of UK companies surveyed do
not have a formal
strategy for disaster recovery and business continuity - by far
the highest in all EMEA, where the average was 2%.
Only 25% of UK companies had tested their business continuity
strategy within the past 12 months, the lowest of any country and
well below the EMEA average of 80%.
Steve Murphy, UK managing director at Hitachi Data Systems,
said, "This is definitely a wake-up call for UK businesses. Every
company should prioritise business continuity and have a
tried-and-tested disaster recovery plan in place to ensure that
they can meet the challenges of an unforeseen incident."
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