BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - April 2, 2008) - Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (
NYSE:
HHS),
announced today the publication of its latest benchmark report entitled,
"Business Continuity: Implementing Disaster Recovery Strategies and
Technologies."
Aberdeen surveyed over 150 end-user organizations, and results provide
evidence that Best-in-Class IT organizations have built infrastructures
that support rapid recovery of data and applications with minimal or no
downtime which assures business continuity even in the face of a severe
disruption event. While 62% of all the companies surveyed experienced
between 1 and 5 business interruption events in the last 12 months, only
49% of the companies surveyed have had a business continuity strategy for
more than 2 years, and 34% have yet to implement a solution.
"It's hard to imagine that a company wouldn't have a data backup system,
but just backing up data alone doesn't constitute a disaster recovery
strategy. In order for a recovery strategy to be effective, it needs to
recover the right applications and data in a timely fashion. Put another
way, how long an outage can a business tolerate before there is a tangible
impact on operations?" said Jeffrey Hill, Senior Research Analyst, Data
Management and Storage practice.
A complimentary copy of this report is made available due in part by the
following underwriters: IBM, InMage Systems, Inc., and MIR3, Inc. To
obtain a complimentary copy of the report, visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=4662.
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analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets,
corporations turn to Aberdeen™ for insights that drive decisions.
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Contact Information: Media Contact:
Jeffrey Hill
Aberdeen Harte-Hanks
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Jeffrey.hill@aberdeen.com