UK businesses struggling to implement disaster recovery

UK businesses are struggling to implement effective disaster recovery solutions, according to the latest research.

A study conducted by Quorum highlighted the lack of preparation that threatens to derail many organizations. Only a third of UK businesses (34 percent) are able to recover from disruption in a few minutes, despite the fact that 75 percent of organizations admit that the threat of business downtime is likely to increase in 2016.

Although many companies are well aware of the financial (and perhaps regulatory) risks of downtime, many do not have the IT budget available to improve their disaster recovery systems. David Fisk, EMEA sales director at Quorum, believes that more organizations must adopt cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions if they are to reduce the risk of downtime in an affordable way.

"This research has shown us that organizations are beginning to identify risks to their business, but many professionals are still struggling to implement an effective DR platform and run regular tests", he said. "With cloud based DR and DRaaS, organizations can implement a more cost effective and simple DR platform to provide business continuity. Companies need to be better prepared going into 2016, organizations are predicting an upsurge in threats and business downtime can cost more than an effective DR solution damaging a companies reputation as well as the financial impact".

The study also cited cyberattacks and human error as the two biggest causes of business disruption, and some businesses must do more to mitigate both. 37 percent of UK firms do not test their disaster recovery plans, which means it is impossible to know how effective they will be when disaster does eventually strike.

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