Avoid the 5 Major Negative Consequences of DR Failure
Disaster recovery is essential for surviving ransomware, other cyber-attacks, and disruptions like floods and fires.
But traditional DR can bring complex issues, such as inefficient use of resources, excess complexity requiring manual effort, reliance on unavailable skillsets, or inability to scale with growth.
Cloud-based DR can simplify the process and save time and cost.
Read this infographic to learn how to solve the challenges of traditional disaster recovery and how cloud-based VMware DR can solve your top DR challenges.
Causes of Business Disruption
The primary causes include technology failures (both hardware and software), power failures, cyberattacks by malicious outsiders, and network failures. Notably, 69% of IT decision makers lack confidence in their ability to recover all business-critical data after a cyber-attack.
Concerns About Disruptive Events
A significant 68% of respondents express concern that their organization may face a disruptive event, such as unplanned systems downtime, within the next year. Additionally, 30% reported having experienced a significant outage in the past two years.
Consequences of DR Failures
Organizations may experience lost worker productivity, a damaged reputation, lost revenue from missed business opportunities, penalties related to compliance, and lost customer loyalty as a result of disaster recovery failures.