BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - September 5, 2007) - Data protection and recovery management are
gaining in importance as more companies put a higher priority level on data
restoration by instituting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that include
Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs),
according to a recent benchmark report by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks company
(
NYSE:
HHS).
Aberdeen surveyed more than 200 respondents and results showed that 82% of
Best-in-Class companies have a formal, written data protection and recovery
management policy in place compared to 51% of the industry average and 33%
of laggards. Furthermore, 57% of Best-in-Class organizations have
implemented its recovery management policy at the executive level compared
to 29% of industry average and 14% of the laggards.
"Data protection and recovery technologies have changed significantly in
the past few years. Once comprised solely of backup applications and tape,
today's data recovery processes are increasingly relying on evolving
disk-based backup and restore technologies," says Avner Kedmi, Research
Director, Data Management & Storage at Aberdeen.
Best-in-Class companies are ahead of the curve in laying the groundwork for
best practices when it comes to setting measurable RTOs and RPOs. "These
companies also have a better handle on whether such policies are
translating into a higher guarantee of data and application recovery,"
explains Kedmi.
A complimentary copy of this report is made available due in part by the
following underwriters: Overland Storage, Vision Solutions, ExaGrid, and
Acronis. To obtain a complimentary copy of the report, visit:
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Contact Information: Media Contact:
Avner Kedmi
Aberdeen Harte-Hanks
(617) 854-5324
Avner.kedmi@aberdeen.com