Two-fifths of companies in Europe are increasing the risk of security breaches and data loss by still relying on tape to backup their data, a survey by EMC suggests.
The EMC European Disaster Recovery Survey 2011, which covered 1,750 companies across Europe, found that businesses are spending, on average, 10pc of their information technology (IT) budgets on backup and recovery.
But 40pc of companies still rely on tape when storing a copy of a backup off-site for disaster recovery, with an average annual cost of €74,000 spent on transporting, storing, testing and replacing tapes.
Where tape is used for disaster recovery purposes, 10pc still have an employee take home a copy of the backup tapes with them.
The survey found that, overall, most (80pc) of organisations using tape want to move beyond it, with speed of restoration, faster backups and lack of durability cited among the main reasons.
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Source: siliconrepublic.com
By: EMC
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