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ESG Research Report: The Evolving Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Landscape
ESG Research Report
Feb 19, 2016
ESG surveyed 391 North American IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in order to explore the trends and preferences involving business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) strategies, implementations, and methodologies. All respondents were IT professionals familiar with and/or responsible for data protection technology decisions for their organization, specifically around technologies and processes to facilitate BC/DR.
Page Count: 24
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Report Conclusions
Introduction
Research Objectives
Research Findings
Current Approaches to Recovery Are Insufficient for Today’s IT Resiliency Requirements
Myriad of Mechanisms and Technologies Used to Facilitate BC/DR Strategies
Establishing BC/DR Strategies Spans Multiple Internal Groups, but IT Still Responsible for Enactment
Rudimentary Tools and Techniques Still Part of Many BC/DR Ecosystems
More Regular BC/DR Testing Facilitates Troubleshooting and Strategy Refinement
Flexibility and Improved Recovery Times Drive Usage of and Interest in Cloud-based Disaster Recovery
Conclusion
Research Implications for Data Protection Vendors and Providers
Research Implications for IT and Data Protection Professionals
Research Methodology
Respondent Demographics
Respondents by Role
Respondents by Number of Employees
Respondents by Industry
Respondents by Age of Organization
Respondents by Annual Revenue
Respondents by Number of Production Servers
Respondents by Installed Disk-based Storage Capacity
Respondents by Percentage of Virtualized x86 Servers
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