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IT Execs and Managers See DR Needs Differently

Disaster recovery IT Execs and Managers See DR Needs Differently Disaster recovery is emerging as a business priority, but IT execs and managers don’t have the same DR priorities. Confidence Gaps IT execs are highly confident in their firms’ DR practices to prevent service disruption (64%) and data loss or theft (57%). In comparison, IT […]

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Gina Roos

May 27, 2016

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IT Execs and Managers See DR Needs Differently

Disaster recovery is emerging as a business priority, but IT execs and managers don’t have the same DR priorities.

Confidence Gaps

IT execs are highly confident in their firms’ DR practices to prevent service disruption (64%) and data loss or theft (57%). In comparison, IT directors and managers are less confident (39% and 36%, respectively).

Exception to the Rule

When it comes to preventing noncompliance, senior IT executives are less confident than mid-level IT managers. More than a third (36%) of senior IT executives said they are extremely or very confident in their DR strategy to prevent noncompliance, compared with 61% of IT managers.

Is DR a Burden?

Half (50%) of the executives polled don’t believe that their companies’ disaster recovery practices are a burden to their IT staff for the daily work of testing, monitoring and managing DR plans.

DR Challenges

70% of IT directors and managers believe disaster recovery is time-consuming, and 64% think DR is complex and difficult to deploy.

High-Priority Concerns

71% of execs said the prevention of data loss or theft is a critical or high priority, and 50% are worried about their organizations’ ability to deliver continuous, uninterrupted access to data.

DR Priority Disparity

While 86% of IT directors and managers share their executives’ views on data loss or theft, 89% believe continuous, uninterrupted data access is a higher priority.

DR Investment Barrier

DR is often viewed as an expensive insurance policy; 36% of IT directors consider disaster recovery a roadblock for funding and a driver for reactionary DR practices, compared to only 7% of senior executives who agree.

DR Decision Making

76% of all respondents said the threat of data loss and pressure to deliver round-the-clock service are the top influencers of their DR strategies, followed by conflicting demand to keep data secure yet easy to access (74%), and overburdened IT resources (72%).

DR Selection Factors

Other top influencers include the pressure to speed product and service delivery (66%), changing compliance requirements (60%), data center complexity (48%) and globalization/business expansion (42%).

DRaaS Motivator

76% of all respondents said the “top motivator for consideration of DRaaS” to a great or some extent was the ability to failover and failback to avoid being trapped in the cloud when disaster strikes.

IT Execs and Managers See DR Needs Differently

Gina Roos

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