IT continuity 'increasingly important to businesses'
Commercial insurance
25th September 2009
Business continuity is becoming increasingly important, as firms now struggle to cope with more than one hour of downtime, a new survey has found.
According to research by Double-Take Software, more than two-thirds of IT professionals (69 per cent) believe that 60 minutes of outage related to core applications is "unacceptable".
The poll of 158 technology managers discovered that just 51 per cent had implemented a high availability solution to address the risk of downtime, but most felt that four hours or more was not an acceptable amount of time for services to be inaccessible during major migration projects.
Ian Masters, marketing director for the UK and Ireland at Double-Take Software, said: "The impact of a system failure or loss of data can be extremely detrimental to individual users, overall company performance and also reputation with customers."
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Business Continuity Institute urged British firms to prepare for the risk of a second outbreak of the swine flu virus this autumn or winter and possible absences, something which unified communications technology could assist with.
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