Kroll Ontrack Survey Reveals That 65 Percent of Organizations Are Experiencing Frequent Data Loss from Virtual Environments

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An article on Business wire regarding recent results from an industry study undertaken by Kroll Ontrack.

Some of the interesting survey findings provided in this article are as follows:

"IT professionals surveyed reported that 65 percent of organizations frequently experienced data loss from a virtual environment. This represents a 140 percent increase in virtual data loss when compared to last year’s survey."

"Key findings indicate that 53 percent of those surveyed experienced five virtual data loss incidents in the past year and 12 percent of respondents experienced data loss more than five times in the past twelve months."

"A Forrester-DRJ survey noted that 15 percent of respondents knew the cost of their business’ downtime; it averaged nearly $145,000 per hour."

"When asked about their cloud provider’s ability to properly handle data loss incidents, 55 percent revealed a lack of confidence. In fact, only 39 percent of respondents said their cloud provider educated their organization on how they would approach a data disaster/data recovery situation from the cloud."