IT Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery The gap between business expectations and IT realities Percentage of combined IT operating and capital budget for business continuity and disaster recovery 5.27% 5.38% 6.15% Q2 2010 Q2 2011 Q2 2012 Percentage of applications and data that fall into: 31% Non critical Mission-critical 35% Business-critical 34% How data is copied between primary and recovery site(s) 35% 5% 22% 41% 8% 28% 22% 24% 29% 17% 17% 18% 39% 59% 46% Remote backup Synchronous replication Asynchronous replication Periodic point in time copies Backup to tape locally and over WAN transport Mission critical applications and data Business-critical applications and data Non-critical applications and data Recovery objectives today and 3 years ago for mission-critical and business critical systems 14% Mission-critical recovery time objectives (RTO) 20% 6% 3 years ago Today 14% 22% Less than 15 minutes Less than 1 hour Less than 4 hours 26% Less than 24 hours 14% Less than 72 hours 27% 31% 12% 14% 27% 6% 14% 22% Mission-critical recovery point objectives (RPO) 3 years ago Today 25% 25% Less than 15 minutes Less than 1 hour Less than 4 hours 20% 39% Less than 24 hours Less than 72 hours 24% 6% 14% Business-critical recovery time objectives (RTO) 4% 14% 18% 3 years ago Today Less than 15 minutes 18% 37% Less than 1 hour Less than 4 hours Less than 24 hours Less than 72 hours 37% 27% 8% 12% 25% 4% 16% 20% Business-critical recovery point objectives (RPO) 3 years ago Today 25% Less than 15 minutes 37% Less than 1 hour Less than 4 hours 29% 31% Less than 24 hours Less than 72 hours 18% Frequency of Testing the disaster recovery system 27% ??????????????????? More than twice a year 31% ?????????????????????? Twice a year 29% ????????????????????? Once a year 12% We do not test our disaster recovery systems ????????? 41% Plan to improve within the next 6 months 33% Plan to improve in the next 6-12 months 16% Have no plans currently, but would like to 10% Happy with the current objectives Future plans for current recovery objectives Source information: Cost-Effective Discovery Recovery Options For Mission-Critical Applications, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of NetIQ, February 2013 Download the Full Study NetlQ. at http://bit.ly/DRoptions.