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Virtualisation and Cloud technology add complexity
Symantec’s sixth annual Symantec Disaster Recovery Study demonstrates the growing challenge of managing disparate virtual, physical and cloud resources because of added complexity for organizations protecting and recovering mission critical applications and data. In addition, the study shows that virtual systems are not properly protected.
The study highlights that nearly half – 44 percent – of data on virtual systems is not regularly backed up and only one in five respondents use replication and failover technologies to protect virtual environments. Respondents also indicated that 60 percent of virtualized servers are not covered in their current disaster recovery (DR) plans. This is up significantly from the 45 percent reported by respondents in 2009. Using multiple tools that manage and protect applications and data in
virtual environments causes major difficulties for data centre managers. In particular, nearly six in 10 of these respondents (58 percent) who encountered problems protecting mission-critical applications in virtual and physical environments reported this to be a large challenge for their organization.
In terms of cloud computing, respondents reported that their organization runs approximately 50 percent of mission-critical applications in the cloud. Two-thirds of respondents (66 percent) report that security is the main concern of putting applications in the cloud. However, the biggest challenge respondents face when implementing cloud computing and storage is the ability to control failovers and make resources highly available (55 percent).
Respondents state that 82 percent of
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backups occur only weekly or less frequently, rather than daily. Resource constraints, lack of storage capacity, and incomplete adoption of advanced and more efficient protection methods hampers rapid deployment of virtual environments. The study also showed that the time required to recover from an outage is twice as long as respondents perceive it to be. When asked what caused their organization to experience downtime over the past five years, respondents reported their outages were mainly from system upgrades, power outages and failures and cyber attacks.
Mismanaged encryption causes downtime
Venafi recently completed a survey of some of the world’s largest companies to give their views on the problem of downtime caused by increasing encryption deployments, coupled with an acute lack of enterprise management controls. The results of the survey revealed: Participating organisations anticipate a 27% year-over-year certificate and key inventory growth rate 85% of organisations manage encryption certificates and private keys manually via spreadsheet and reminder notes 78% of organisations have
experienced system downtime due to encryption failures in the past 12 months 96% of organisations use certificate based server-to-server and/or server-to-client mutual authentication for secure communications inside the firewall 71% of organisations have regulatory auditors assessing against private and asymmetric key management
Paul Turner, Vice President of Product and Customer Solutions at Venafi said: “This data validates what we’ve long seen at our Global 2000
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installed base and prospect accounts. Certificate-based encryption deployments have exploded in recent years. Nearly every IT system and application relies on SSL certificates for trusted communications, including device and user authentication, in an effort to connect systems and users to the infrastructure securely. The result is that large enterprises are faced with the prospect of deploying and manually managing thousands and, in some cases, tens of thousands of certificates of keys.”
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