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| Over half companies have no IT recovery plan in North American |
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The potential for critical business computing sites to be impacted due to natural disasters or terrorism-related events remains high for enterprises in North America, said a survey released Monday.
Almost 60 percent of businesses do not have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) in place to resume IT services in case of crisis, the survey conducted by Info-Tech Research Group revealed.
"Enterprises are still unequipped to deal with disaster and need to address that gap as a high priority," said Ross Armstrong, senior research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group. "Recovering from a disaster will be extremely difficult for businesses where IT departments have not taken steps to support critical hardware and software."
The Info-Tech survey revealing the DRP shortfall conducted earlier this year included 1,136 IT personnel in companies throughout the United States and Canada.
One of the lessons derived from the tragic Sept. 11 events of 2001 in New York was the importance of diverse storage sites that can provide remote back-up in the event of disaster.
This summer, internet service outages were experienced in two major centers, New York resulting from an explosion and in San Francisco due to power failure, impacting numerous high-profile and high-traffic web sites.
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