A study by Orion soft involving 93 large Russian enterprises across sectors like energy, finance, and transport reveals a gap between perceived and actual disaster resilience. While 86.9% of companies claim high readiness for emergencies, many lack a systematic approach to recovery planning.
Data shows that 74% of organizations experience failures no more than twice a year. To mitigate risks, 86.9% have partial disaster recovery plans, and 91.3% utilize replication tools. For 87.7% of respondents, recovery time objective (RTO) is a strictly regulated metric, with 41.5% aiming for recovery within one hour.
Despite these measures, testing remains inconsistent. Only 34.4% of firms conduct regular drills more than twice annually, while 37.6% rarely or never test their recovery systems. Furthermore, 68.1% of companies still rely on manual backup restoration as their primary recovery method.
Orion soft experts note that manual recovery is prone to human error and fails to meet modern business continuity requirements. Automated virtualization-level solutions are recommended to ensure predictable RTOs starting from 15 minutes, while combining software and storage-level replication can achieve near-zero data loss.
