Disaster Recovery Survey

Disaster recovery survey disconnects were highlighted in a recent article published by Computerworld. The sort of disconnects I am referring to is highlighted in the first line of the article: “U.S. business executives and CIO’s are living in two different worlds when it comes to how they think about disaster recovery, according to a new survey of enterprise executives in the U.S. and Europe, to be published today.”

Disaster recovery survey - statistics

Now that is an amazing statement considering the changes in focus that have been made since September 11 2001.

Seems that there was a huge disconnect when executives were asked how vulnerable they felt their companies were to "losing access to business-critical data" in the event of a disaster.

The difference in attitude between U.S. business executives -- which included CEOs, board directors and senior financial executives -- and CIO’s was remarkable.

Just 14% of business leaders said they felt that their data would be "very vulnerable" in the event of a disaster, but almost four times as many IT executives felt that way: 52% of them said they saw their enterprise data as very vulnerable, according to the study's authors.

Disaster recovery survey - attitudes

When it came to predicting disaster downtime, the disconnect was less pronounced: 91% of business executives said they thought they would be able to resume normal business activities in less than three days after losing access to business-critical data, compared with 78% in IT, while 37% of business executives thought it would take their company eight hours or less to be up and running, compared with 40% on the IT side.