Businesses in Thailand lose close to us$15billion from data loss and downtime per year

Global data loss is up by 400% since 2012 while, surprisingly, 86% of organizations in Thailand are still not fully confident in their ability to recover after a disruption, the study found.

EMC Global Data Protection Index, conducted by Vanson Bourne, surveyed 3,300 IT decision makers from mid-size to enterprise-class businesses across 24 countries, including 125 respondents from Thailand.

It found that 62% of enterprises surveyed in Thailand experienced data loss or downtime in the last 12 months.

It also found that 37% of businesses in Thailand lack a disaster recovery plan for any of these environments and just 4% have a plan for all three

And 69% of businesses in Thailand are found to ‘difficult’ to protect their data while 18% of all primary data are found to be located in some form of cloud storage that could result in substantial loss.

The findings showed that enterprises in Thailand that had not deployed a continuous availability strategy were thrice as likely to suffer data loss as those that had.

The survey also found that the vast majority–89%of businesses in Thailand rank in the bottom two categories for data protection maturity.

Guy Churchward, President, EMC Core Technologies, said the research highlighted the enormous monetary impact of unplanned downtime and data loss to businesses everywhere.

“With 62% of IT decision-makers interviewed feeling challenged to protect hybrid cloud, big data and mobile, it’s understandable that almost all of them lack the confidence that data protection will be able to meet future business challenges.  We hope the global data protection index will prompt IT leaders to pause and reevaluate whether their current data protection solutions are in alignment with today’s business requirements as well as their long term goals,” Churchward said.

Nathakorn Potejanasaja