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Disasters 'cost businesses productivity and money'
Category: Data recovery
28 January, 2009
Disaster will always cost a business in terms of lost productivity and revenue, it has been claimed, but the smart ones will implement a swift disaster recovery (DR) plan to limit this loss as much as possible.Sunil Polepalli, a product management employee at Symantec Global Services, wrote in an article for Data Storage Connection that lost worker productivity because of server downtime cost businesses around the world $140 billion (£97.7 billion) in 2007.
However, she stated that companies who invest in DR planning now could help to reduce the impact upon them by backing up critical information regularly and investing in alternative work facilities in case of a disaster.
Meanwhile, the Times recently reported that companies face a growing range of threats to the security and should therefore invest in a properly thought out and researched DR plan.
The paper claimed that companies cutting back on DR budgets in the present economic climate are simply asking for trouble in the future.
