Poll shows companies preferring outsourcing critical data
IDC survey finds companies plan to increase continuity spending more than fivefold in 2006
Oursourcing is a dirty word when it involves jobs. When it involves a company’s critical data, however, employees and employers alike seem to love it. A new study by IDC found that companies “using an in-house strategy rated their recovery capability (on average) lower than if outsourced,” and that the majority of respondents “indicated a strong preference for using a hosted service that already had recovery capabilities integrated into it.”
“Companies prefer to leverage an outsourced model in which they retain significant control over the IT assets and IT staff, but transfer control of the management for provisioning [business continuity and disaster relief] service for their IT environments,” said David Tapper, program director of IT outsourcing and utility services at IDC. The survey found respondents planned to increase investment in new business continuity technologies and services by more than fivefold in 2006.
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