Threats to business continuity are proliferating, according to a new study.
A poll of IT professionals and C-level executives by SteelEye Technology has revealed concerns about the potential of IT outages to cause irreversible damage to organisations.
Some 87 per cent of those surveyed claimed that threats to business continuity have grown more intense over the past 12 months.
Bob Williamson, vice-president of SteelEye Technology, said that firms depend more than ever on technological efficiency and are thinking more about safeguards - such as voice disaster recovery - to prevent fatal outages.
"What's also evident from this survey is that C-level priorities make a clear difference in how seriously IT takes business continuity assurance," he said.
Some 40 per cent of those surveyed said that the average IT organisation is better prepared for such threats than they were a year ago.
However, this figure fell to 28 per cent among those whose chief executives had not been felt to have prioritised voice disaster recovery and other such business continuity strategies.
Meanwhile, a recent Teleware report asserted that British firms lack awareness of unified communications.
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