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Backup and disaster recovery is becoming increasingly important across various industries all over the world. In fact, according to our 2012 Global Disaster Recovery Index, businesses are 14 percent more confident in their backup and disaster recovery capabilities than they were the previous year. With more attention focused on the technology that supports such an important business continuity strategy, Acronis’ backup and disaster recovery solutions have been gaining more and more recognition.

Just this past week, Acronis not only was included in Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe List, but we have also received the Green IT Magazine Virtualization Product of the Year Award for Acronis Backup & Recovery® Virtual Edition.

Coming on the heels of winning two virtual product awards, as well as a customer service award for Best Small Call Center of the Year, we are pleased to see that our backup and disaster recovery products, including Acronis® Backup & Recovery 11™ Virtual Edition and Acronis® vmProtect™ 7, are being acknowledged for their innovation, distinguishing features and business benefits, including the ability to provide a single, comprehensive solution for physical, virtual and cloud IT environments.

These awards are great validation for the technological advancement we’ve continued to deliver, and, as IT environments continue to advance and data volumes rise steadily, our solutions will keep businesses’ on the cutting edge of data protection and business continuity procedures.

 

For U.S Public Sector Confidence Is Highest In Backup And Disaster Recovery Operations According to Acronis Survey

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According to the 2012 Acronis Disaster Recovery Index, small and medium sized businesses (organizations of under 100 seats) in the U.S. public services sector are the most confident when it comes to backup and disaster recovery operations. Thirty-four percent expressed that they are most confident their IT and security personnel are qualified to execute backup and disaster recovery operations in the wake of a serious incident or event. Fifty-two percent strongly agreed that their organizations have ample controls and procedures enabling them to have comprehensive backup and disaster recovery operations. A clear indicator of their high confidence stems from their high involvement in their organizations backup and disaster recovery operations. Forty-two percent of respondents cited that their backup and disaster recovery plans are well documented as well.

SMBs in the public sector cite that within the past year the amount of time lost in the event of system downtime was less than half a day. Although system downtime for the public sector was calculated as less than a day, thirty percent believe their organization would not suffer substantial downtime due to a serious incident. Twenty-five percent are also not very concerned with their backups and disaster recovery operations failing in the event of a serious incident due to their procedures and IT personnel currently in place. The public sector is extremely confident in their ability to quickly recover in the event of a disaster since twenty-seven percent expressed high confidence overall in their organization’s ability to quickly recover in the event of a system downtime.

Although the public sector is extremely confident in their backup and disaster recovery procedures, only 5-10% of their IT budget is spent specifically on backup and disaster recovery operations. Even with a small portion of the IT budget, SMBs in the public sector have implemented full-scale business continuity plans, implementing more staff training and continue to test their backups more regularly as a result of the natural disasters that occurred throughout 2011.

In the U.S the public services sector was extremely confident in their backup and disaster recovery operations; however the survey showed that the public services sectors worldwide were not confident at all in these specific operations. According to our worldwide overall results, the public services sector was the least confident citing that lack of budget and resources as two key challenges for backup and disaster recovery operations. Thirty-three percent cited that they do not have a budget to IT spending, at all. And forty-one percent cited that the lack of skilled IT personnel to manage their backup and disaster recovery operations was another major issue.

 

For more information on the 2012 Global Disaster Recovery Index:                             

The survey was conducted by the Ponemon Institute across 18 countries in September and October 2011. Over 6,000 IT practitioners were surveyed in small- to mid-market organisations with no more than 1,000 seats. Details of how the index was calculated and where each country appears can be found here:

 

Back Bay Blaze Leaves Boston Businesses In The Dark

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Late Tuesday night, as many local business leaders were relaxing after the IDC Directions conference, the Back Bay area of Boston was engulfed in a huge cloud of black smoke caused by an electrical transformer fire outside the Hilton Hotel. Not only was part of the city under a black haze, but power was cut off to 20,000 customers in the Back Bay as firefighters tried to battle this blaze. It wasn’t until today that the remaining all those customers had regained their power.

Power was not restored to the corporate buildings and Convention Center until late Wednesday night.  The John Hancock and Prudential Center buildings are home to several businesses that remained closed on Wednesday and some even into Thursday morning. The Back Bay area is home to several hotels, two of Boston’s largest office buildings including the John Hancock Building, residential homes and the Hynes Convention Center.

In February, we released our 2nd annual Global Disaster Recovery Index, which ranks the confidence levels of IT managers on their disaster recovery and backup capabilities. The cost of system downtime on average for a business lasts 2.2 days, and during the course of 12 months, US businesses estimated losses of $360,000 dollars due to lost productivity. Although businesses in the area were not physically damaged by the fire, there was a significant amount of downtime caused by the lack of generators and equipment needed to get these businesses back and running. Now, three or four days after the incident occurred, businesses are now picking up the pieces from Monday’s work day hoping that the lack of work that was inflicted on these businesses does not cause any further damage.

This was the type of incident that is impossible to plan for. We hear about flooding and earthquakes, and it is easy to forget the everyday challenges that are also completely out of the IT manager’s control. Our survey showed that one of the biggest issues was businesses not testing their backup plans on a regular basis. Another issue that was common among the IT managers was the feeling that they had inadequate technology or properly trained personal in place to cope with disaster. Small businesses are adopting new technologies such as virtualization at an accelerating pace – a pace that their data protection initiatives may not have caught up with. This accident could have happened anywhere in the city, and could have affected any business.

With World Backup Day just around the corner, March 31st, it is a good reminder to make sure your business data is not only adequately backed up but more important you know how to quickly restore it when the unexpected happens.

 

To learn more about Disaster Recovery Best Practices, listen to this Acronis Disaster Recovery Best Practices Webinar. 

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