Security Response

Symantec has just released its 2008 Disaster Recovery (DR) research report. This is the fourth year that Symantec has issued this report and the overall results are compelling-a real wake up call for enterprise customers who believe disasters only happen to other companies. There'll be more to come on that later, but the press release for the report can be found here.

One big addition to the survey for this year was virtualization. Well, great timing. This is a technology that impacts many aspects of a company's business. It didn't surprise me to see some of the actual results regarding virtualization: 55% of respondents said that virtualization in and of itself would cause them to re-evaluate their DR plan. And, in North America specifically, the number was 64%. Again, I was not too surprised-more validation than anything. In the backup and recovery I see the enterprise...