BUSINESS REPORT DISASTER RECOVERY
Swedish (16%) and Norwegian (17%) businesses spend a lot more of their overall IT budget on backup and DR than any other country surveyed and almost three times as much as businesses in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
Compared to the rest of the world, however, Swedish and Norwegian businesses are the least likely to embrace cloud computing, and very few make any significant use of the cloud today. While most countries will average an 87% increase in cloud-based IT over the next 12 months, Swedish and Norwegian use of the cloud will grow little more than 20% during the same period.
The laggards: UK, Australia and the United States Dragging their feet near the back were the native English speaking countries. Businesses in the UK, Australia and the US all scored poorly on their ability to avoid downtime in the event of a serious incident (27%/44%/38%). Their confidence in recovering quickly (56%/36%/40%) also fell far short of the Index leaders, Germany (77%) and the Netherlands (85%).
This group lagged behind the leaders when it came to having boardroom buy-in and ample resources and technologies to do the job. When it comes to successfully recovering from a serious incident the Australians were the least confident. Just 22% of Australian businesses felt that they would be able to recover quickly in the event of downtime, compared to a global average of 50%.
Approximately a third of businesses in the UK (36%), Australia (36%) and the US (32%) do not have a backup and offsite DR strategy in place. These countries were generally the most likely to claim backup and DR was not being made enough of a priority, citing lack of budget and resources as the primary reasons behind this. But this theory plays out only partially. As a proportion of all IT spend, the UK, Australia and the US spent consistently less on backup and DR (10%/11%/10%) than Germany (13%) and the Netherlands (14%) but not by a wide mark.
Room to grow: France and Italy In last place were France and Italy. These two countries put the least priority on backup and DR, highlighted by the fact that 39% of French and 53% of Italian businesses claimed to spend nothing on backup or DR. They are the most likely to admit that they do not have an offsite backup and DR strategy (41%/45%) and the least likely to be able to recover quickly from downtime, at 27% and 30% respectively, compared to an Index average of 50%. Their spend is the lowest percentage of overall IT budget of all countries surveyed at 5% (France) and 4% (Italy) respectively.
What the index teaches us So what can we learn from the Index? In today’s world backup and disaster recovery is still a subject which many SMB organisations still struggle with. It’s not simply about having sufficient resources and technologies that count, businesses need
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