Veeam, which provides solutions that deliver availability for the always-on enterprise, is promoting World Availability Day as part of its larger mission to enable IT to provide a data centre that is always-on. One measure of always-on is the ability to bring an application back up in 15 minutes, the company said. It might not have been possible in the past, but with advancements like storage snapshots, virtualisation and other technologies, Veeam says that enterprises can back up as often as every 15 minutes and recover anything in the same amount of time.
"Employees, customers and partners expect to have access to the information and applications at any time and from anywhere. Unfortunately, that’s not happening. Eighty-four percent of CIOs admit that they are unable to meet that expectation according to a recent industry survey commissioned by Veeam Software, and it’s costing them up to US$16 million every year," the company said in a statement.
Service level agreements (SLAs) may have recovery time objectives (RTOs) that average 1.6 hours, but respondents admitted that recoveries actually take an average of 3 hours, the company shared. Similarly, the average SLA for recovery point objectives (RPOs) is 2.9 hours, whereas 4.2 hours is actually being delivered, on average.
According to Veeam, organisations experienced an average of 15 unplanned downtime events per year in 2015, compared to an average of 13 events in 2014. In addition, the average length of downtime events has increased, with IT decision-makers (ITDMs) reporting that unplanned mission-critical application downtime length has grown from 1.4 hours to 1.9 hours. Non-mission-critical application downtime length has also increased, from 4 hours to 5.8 hours.
According to Veeam, organisations experienced an average of 15 unplanned downtime events per year in 2015, compared to an average of 13 events in 2014. In addition, the average length of downtime events has increased, with IT decision-makers (ITDMs) reporting that unplanned mission-critical application downtime length has grown from 1.4 hours to 1.9 hours. Non-mission-critical application downtime length has also increased, from 4 hours to 5.8 hours.
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