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CIO's Disaster recovery Budgets may rise

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 PUNE, INDIA: What spurs an enterprise to go for enough IT on disaster recovery or DR? Enterprises fear loss of data during disaster. DR testing increasingly impacts customers and revenue, is another possible reason.

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Symantec also augurs that DR budgets are expected to rise in 2010. And that executive involvement is higher than last year.

About 67 per cent of Indian Organizations, as per a recent survey, are prompted by virus attacks to create a disaster recovery strategy plan. So, as per Symantec Disaster recovery survey 2009, apart from these, virtual and physical breaches drive organizations for DR adoption. Other main drivers are that cost of downtime, IT’s increasing role as a more critical business function and how virtualization changes organizations’ approach to DR.

According to the survey, 67 per cent of the organizations are concerned about data loss during Disaster, 63 per cent of the organizations are concerned about damage to customer loyalty during disaster and 49 per cent of the organizations are concerned about damage to competitive standing in the market during disaster.

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The Budget part is an interesting direction. About 30 per cent IT budget is allocated towards disaster recovery initiatives including backup, recovery, clustering, archiving, spare servers, replication, tape, services, DR plan development and offsite costs etc. Now as per the survey, 47 per cent want to increase their DR budgets in the next 12 months and 53 per cent are willing to increase the DR budgets in the next 24 months.



As to the CIO level involvement part, it finds out that CIO / CTO / IT director involvement is dramatically rising. Involvement number has gone up from 23 per cent of DR committees in 2008, to 72 per cent of DR committees in 2009.

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Virtualization per se, has caused 61 per cent of organizations to reevaluate their DR plans. While 25 per cent do not test virtual environments as part of their disaster recovery initiatives, about 27 per cent say data on virtualized systems is not regularly backed up.

This is pointed out as per an Applied Research conducted survey in June 2009 that had 1,650 worldwide responses, including 75 in India for organizations with at least 5,000 employees worldwide. It focused on DR plans and enterprise IT involved with DR management.