76% Experienced Data Center Outage This Year

Zerto Inc., in virtualized data centers for both enterprises and cloud service providers, released an infographic titled 5 Ways to Master Disaster Recovery.

The infographic was created based on data the company collected from a survey of 356 IT professionals.
 
Key findings include:

Data center outages are frequent and companies
find themselves ill prepared:

• At least 76% of respondents have experienced an outage in the past year.
• 42% of respondents experienced an outage in the last six months and
  86% of those incidents were caused by something other than a natural
  disaster.
• 26-50% of the applications in data centers are considered business-critical and yet 7% of companies have no DR plan at all.

Legacy DR solutions are not providing
desired levels of protection:

• 71.5% of respondents have a snapshot-based DR solution.
• 53% of those surveyed note "complexity" as one of the biggest challenges of DR.
• 30% of respondents have 75% or more of their environment protected with a DR plan, but 77% are not fully confident it will work
• 36% test their DR solution only once a year and another 18% have never tested their DR solution.

                
                  The biggest challenge of DR

 
"Though more than three quarters of respondents reported having
experienced an outage in the last 12 months, and many have a DR solution
in place, few are confident their DR solution will actually work," said Ziv Kedem, co-founder and CEO, Zerto. "This
study reflects that while many solutions are available for DR, no
legacy solutions are providing the service levels and simplicity needed
for mission-critical application protection in virtualized and cloud
environments."

This survey was completed by collecting data from 356 IT managers,
VMware Admins and sys admins, and BC/DR professionals who work in more
than 10 different industries, including finance, healthcare, legal,
education, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing.