Based on the survey, the public sector in the United Kingdom industry with the least infrastructure for DR or disaster recovery and backup. Almost 61 percent of respondents that belongs in the public sector say that their disaster recovery is not well handled and the same proportion which is 59 percent say that some business executives are not affirmative with the disaster recovery and backup operations, it was according to the UK findings of the global survey.
Because of that some respondents point the finger at the lack of resources and budget and this was no surprise. The United Kingdom was not the only region in which the public sector has poor disaster recovery. The Global Disaster Recovery Index 2012 was approved by DR specialist Acronis and established all over the 18 countries by independent research company the Ponemon Institute, surveyed nearly 6,000 firms with more than 1,000 seats.
A third of public sector organizations do not consume any budget at all on disaster recovery and backup and almost 41 percent say that they6 lack skilled IT staff to handle all of their systems on a global essence. Based on the EMEA general manager for Acronis, David Blackman said that several public sector organizations could enhance their save money and disaster recovery processes, Public sector budget cuts globally are slamming every department hard, however, through embracing new technologies like cloud and virtualization and by stabilizing the number of backup product that they got.
The analysis revealed that the public sector has been slow to affirm virtualization so far, and a third of all United Kingdom public sector organizations have not acknowledged virtualization at all. Likely, the public sector is the least probable to secure its virtual servers with 71 percent defending they either do not back up or do not recognize if they back up their virtual servers as much as their physical ones.
In the next 12 months, almost 86 percent of United Kingdom public sector organizations presume that they will be utilizing cloud that serves a hope for the cloud computing and some say that cloud lowers operational costs which 56 percent agrees on that. But almost 36 percent have no off-site backup strategy at all, in that case they would not recover if there is an on-site calamity.
REFERENCES:
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2164906/report-uk-pubic-sector-lacks-disaster-recovery
http://www.computerfutures.com/page/newsfeed/public-sector-must-boost-disaster-recovery-technology
http://www.acronis.co.uk/pr/2012/03/29-08-49.html
http://openviewpartners.com/news/smaller-government-disaster-recovery/
http://www.bandl.com/news-events/Compliance-and-Disaster-Recovery/800471015-Public-sector-disaster-recovery-efforts-insufficient-study-finds.html
