Companies still unprepared for major disasters
Mountain View, Calif. — Veritas Software Corp. has released its third annual research study on IT department readiness for disasters and the findings do not look good.
The research revealed that 43 per cent of organizations worldwide remain
largely unprepared to respond to a major disaster.
The study was conducted on behalf of Veritas by U.K.-based Dynamic Markets Ltd. It surveyed 1,259 IT professionals around the globe and found that only 38 per cent of the respondents claimed to have a comprehensive, integrated disaster recovery and business continuity plan in place, in spite of the fact that 92 per cent of them acknowledged that serious consequences would result if they were faced with a major disruption such as a hurricane or fire.
Bridging security with storage
Boston — The Yankee Group is predicting another significant spike in e-mail archiving services as providers get closer to offering end-to-end e-mail processing services.
According to Yankee, e-mail and instant messaging is growing by leaps and bounds and that organizations continue to be challenged by archiving in combination with life-cycle management and storage strategies they are trying to implement today.
Yankee said the US$140 million worldwide market for messaging archiving solutions will double this year. The research firm predicts convergence in storage, content filtering and archiving markets driven by regulatory requirements for end-to-end messaging security solutions throughout this year and well into 2005.
Some of the key vendors in this area are Legato, now part of EMC Corp., Veritas, Computer Associates, KVS, IXOS, and CommVault, Yankee said.
