Downtime costs and Tight RTO,Big Disaster Recovery Challenges

JAKARTA - disorders such as natural disasters, shortage of electricity, or a bomb caused the explosion of technology and information systems in different offices or organizations experiencing downtime.

This resulted in the perpetrators of IT downtime can cost high repair and pressuring them to do after a disaster recovery plan, or so-called Disaster Recovery (DR).

In a survey conducted by DR Symantec involving 1650 companies around the world, Symantec found that the responsibilities of IT professionals to increase the DR today.

Conclusions derived from survey results of Symantec said that the cost of downtime increases significantly improved. It also had an impact on the cost to do DR. Symantec also mention, the DR procedure done by a company or organization will impact on consumers and income.

"Approximately 42 percent of participants claimed that the DR impact on consumers. The number was increased 30 percent from last year's survey. In addition 31 per cent mentioned the DR also had an impact on earnings. This percentage rose also rose from the previous year only 21 percent," Symantec's Technical Manager says South Asia Geography Raymond Goh told the media, at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Jakarta (20/10/2009).

Therefore, Symantec recommends solutions to IT professionals to implement more automation tools that minimize human involvement and address other weaknesses in their DR plans.

Furthermore, they suggested to improve the success of testing to evaluate and implement testing methods which do not interfere.

And the last is, to involve those who are responsible for virtualization in DR plans. Not least important, virtual environments should be treated the same as physical servers.