The Cibecs 2010 Data Loss Survey released this week revealed that data backup is a significant problem that is costing South African companies millions.<\/p>\n
Only 32% of survey respondents showed great confidence in their current backup methodology and 68% were unconvinced of their ability to recover lost data and ensure business continuity.<\/p>\n
Cibecs Marketing Manager Brandon Faber says that nearly half (46%) of companies relied on some kind of policy to ensure business critical data is backed up. “Ironically the failure of these policies was also listed as the main cause of data loss. It is here where the backup and recovery vacuum exists,” he says.<\/p>\n
Most companies have server backup solutions in place but, more often than not, it is the data residing on user desktops and laptops that is the cause of concern – mainly because business critical data is not backed up to the company server.<\/p>\n
“Gartner predicts that data flow into enterprises will grow by 650% over the next five years. Add to that the ever increasing mobility of vast amounts of data by way of much improved laptop storage, and there’s a recipe for disaster should smart data management not be in place,” says Faber.<\/p>\n