Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ:DBTK) today announced that 57% of IT organisations see reducing recovery time in the event of IT failure and cutting the cost of backup as the two biggest painpoints for backup and disaster recovery. The next most significant difficulties were the ability to roll back to any point in time when recovering workloads and recovery testing.
 
The findings are the result of a survey into attitudes towards backup and the effect of virtualisation on business continuity strategies, conducted at the Storage Expo show held in London on 14-15 October. Virtualisation is already in place with the majority of those questioned, with 86 per cent of those surveyed having a virtual infrastructure in place within their organisations.

Further findings from the survey include:
– Tape backup is the most popular technology involved for recovery of virtual machines, with 60 per cent of organisations relying on tape to protect their virtualisation implementations. 53 per cent of organisations are using disk-to-disk backup products, while proprietary virtualisation products such as VMware’s VMotion are used by 23 per cent.
– 17 per cent of organisations are only using tape backup for the backup / recovery of their virtual machines.
– The number of respondents that were able to judge their Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) when it came to virtualised environments was much lower than those able to define their Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) – only 45 per cent of those surveyed were able to state their satisfaction level around their RPOs.

Double-Take Software white papers on best practice DR and backup strategies for virtualised environments, reducing cost and recovery time and extracting more value through centralised backup are available here: http://www.doubletake.com/uk/resources/whitepapers/Pages/default.aspx