Companies aren’t properly protected against connection losses, a survey finds
A survey conducted recently found that nearly 80% of business users were concerned about the loss in productivity due to a possible outage in their network connection and nearly 56% said that they didn’t have a backup plan for their network connection.
This research also found that the WAN networks and the internet connections of companies in the country could possibly suffer from a lot of downtime if there was no backup plan in place.
51% of the 110 IT executives that took part in the survey admitted that, during the past year, their company has been victim to some form of network outage at least once.
The survey also revealed that at least 57% of outages that harm the primary network links could have been avoided if the company had made an investment in some secondary link in order to steer clear of such problems, the research said, which involved companies that either had to connect to a number of locations or had to support remote workers.
The MD of CI-net, Graham McLean, which is a fully managed wide area networks, hosting and internet service provider, also participated in conducting the survey and said that nearly 56% who participated in the poll said that they didn’t have a backup system to keep connectivity intact in case of an outage. This is shocking, to say the least, because most of these companies were fully aware that a connectivity problem could disrupt connections between branches or even disable access to the network for remote workers, thereby seriously affecting their operations.
The same survey also noted that business continuity was considered as one of the top priorities that IT executives mentioned for their network for the next year. This was considered more important than cost cutting, showing the priority given to connectivity for organizations.
