Acronis Survey warns several consequences for Virtualization and Cloud
Acronis has launched the industry's first Global Disaster Recovery Index, a barometer which measures IT managers' confidence in their backup and recovery operations.
The survey of over 3,000 small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) conducted by the Ponemon Institute revealed that while attitudes towards backup and recovery differ widely around the world, businesses everywhere want a single backup and recovery solution for physical, virtual and cloud environments. The vast majority (68%) of IT managers agree that their greatest challenge in a hybrid environment is moving data between the three environments, yet the average business currently uses at least two or three separate backup solutions, making disaster recovery (DR) more complicated.
The survey also highlighted that many IT managers are failing to back up their virtual environments as often as their physical counterparts. Despite an expected 50% global increase in the deployment of virtual production servers in 2011, over half (55%) of organizations claim they either do not back up or do not know if they back up their virtual servers as often as their physical servers. In addition, over half (56%) of companies are using different solutions for both their physical and virtual backups.
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