Almost three quarters of firms in the London area see business continuity as a priority and nearly half of them are mulling to use cloud technology to tackle terrorism threats and security breaches, according to a survey by AT&T.
The study was conducted by e-Rewards Market Research with companies having total revenues of more than $25m (except for government entities).
Twenty seven percent of the firms surveyed said they have had to use their own disaster plans for real to deal with such diverse threats as power outages, extreme weather events or IT failures.
In major cities like London, the threat posed by natural disaster, terrorism and security threats is never far from executives’ minds.
Forty five percent of executives already use or are considering using cloud services to augment their business continuity/disaster recovery strategy.
More than one-fourth (27%) of the executives indicate that the primary motivation for investing in new technologies is to grow and expand the business followed by increased productivity (25%).
One-fourth (21%) indicate that investing in new technologies also helps to reduce costs.
AT&T Global Network Operations and Network Disaster Recovery vice president Mark Francis said the company believes it is important to run disaster recovery demonstrations in the field and they also take the time to understand what customers’ concerns are around network readiness and preparedness.
"We’ve found that UK enterprises appreciate the need to invest in preparedness and are realizing that cloud computing will play a vital role in delivering this without compromising performance," Francis said.
