Study

Bangalore, Dec 25 Indian enterprises face challenges in protecting and recovering data as they increasingly adopt virtualisation and cloud computing, a study by global security solutions provider Symantec Corporation revealed.”Virtualisation is having a big impact on the disaster recovery plans of Indian enterprises due to the complexity of managing disparate virtual, physical and cloud resources simultaneously,” Symantec India director Anand Naik told IANS citing the findings of the sixth annual disaster recovery study.

Bid to reduce the cost of ownership

In a bid to reduce the cost of ownership and operations, enterprises are increasingly adopting to utility computing in which customers pay as per use for processing without affecting their scalability and work loads.

Virtualisation is a creation of virtual version of an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.

In case of cloud computing, 41 percent of the enterprises surveyed reported that security was their main concern for hosting applications in cloud even though only 29 percent of their mission-critical applications run in cloud environment.

The internet-based cloud computing

In the internet-based cloud computing, shared servers provide resources, software and data to computers and other devices as in case of power grid.

Cloud computing providers use virtualisation, service-oriented architecture and utility computing to deliver business applications online by accessing them through a web browser, during the software and data are stored on servers.

“The challenges faced by enterprises in cloud computing are ability to backup daily than weekly, lack of storage capacity and resource constraints in terms of people, budget and space,” Naik pointed out.

The disaster recovery study is an annual global survey commissioned by the $6.6 billion Symantec to highlight business trends regarding disaster recovery planning and preparedness.