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92% of SMBs think they can recover from a disaster, but many don't have plans in place
2020-06-10 13:01

Despite a quarter of respondents saying they could recover data lost in a disaster in under 10 minutes and 30% in under an hour, 16% confess that they don't know their RTO, or recovery time objective, which is an important measure that shows how quickly an organization can bounce back from a data loss.

"Make no mistake," Reeder said, "If a business does not have a disaster recovery solution in place, or at the very least a solution to back up its data, there is no way it can get the data back from a data loss event."

Predictions of RTO varied by sector, with 26% of telecom execs reporting an RTO of 10 minutes, finance/accounting and retail/e-commerce saying under one hour, and healthcare positing that it would take one full day to fully recover from a data loss.

Industries differed in their goals for data recovery, with three quarters of retail and healthcare execs citing a speedy recovery as the top priority, whereas 64% of finance executives listing zero data loss as the aim.

Data recovery solutions such as Infrascale replicate material in the cloud-but first, they back up physical servers locally-offering a hybrid approach, which "Enables business users to access their data and applications from a temporary production site, giving them time to fix the root problem," Reeder added.


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