Beware the fat finger when it comes to cloudy data loss
November 3, 2014
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.
Human error is responsible for one in five data loss errors, according to the latest study from cloud provider Databarracks. The study, the fifth annual Data Health Check report, found that employee idiocy was the third most popular reason for data going missing with 18% of the vote, behind software failure (19%) and hardware failure (21%). Interestingly, corruption and theft were responsible for 15% and 7% of the poll respectively.
Yet it’s the larger companies who continue to foul up. 22% of large organisations listed human error as the main cause of data loss over the last 12 months, compared to 6% of small organisations. The report examines the cost of backup and disaster recovery. While a third (32%) of respondents spend less than half an hour on backup, a similar number (33%) take more than two hours or employ dedicated staff…
Worryingly, 41% of small organisations don’t have a business continuity plan and don’t intend to implement one in the next year. A third (35%) of respondents don’t test their disaster systems due to lack of time, compared with 18% for cost and 18% for lack of relevant skills…
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