Over One Third of SMBs Willing to Risk a 40% Revenue Hit Due to Their Inability to Recover from a Disaster
Written by Phil on January 20, 2010 in disaster preparedness, survey.
Three months ago Symantec published the results of its SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey that shared what nearly 1,700 small and midsize companies worldwide had to say about disaster recovery (DR). While the results of this report were mentioned by a number of publications (Continuity Central, eWeek, IT Business Edge and Techworld just to name a few), there were a couple other nuggets of information included in this survey that these articles either glossed over or simply failed to mention.
Two key conclusions discussed by Mr. Wendt are:
- over one third (36%) of SMBs do not backup their virtual environments; and,
- the willingness of SMB vendors to lose over one third of their customers and the willingness of customers to change SMB vendors.
See Over One Third of SMBs Willing to Risk a 40% Revenue Hit Due to Their Inability to Recover from a Disaster by Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG.
Tags: preparedness, SMPs, survey, Symantec
