Survey reveals extensive server disasters and data loss among enterprises

A VERY interestingpress release from Lucid8:Arecent survey provides clear evidence that a large number of organizationsare experiencing disastrous Exchange Server failures. The survey was conductedby Lucid8, a provider of automated disaster prevention, optimization andrecovery software for Microsoft Exchange Server and was directed at organizationsthat rely heavily on e-mail as a driving force in communications. Morethan 360 IT managers, messaging and Exchange specialists participated inthe study, providing a highly representative base of respondents.Seemslike a pretty good sample size and solid methodology...let's take a lookat the results.- Nearly three quarters of the respondentshad suffered from an Exchange disaster. 70 percent of these firms statedthat their Exchange Server was down for at least eight hours, and 45 percentsaid it was down for more than 24 hours per incident. - Almost half of the respondents statedthe cost of lost opportunity was more than $5,000 per incident, and 23percent reported that they had experienced permanent data loss from serverdisasters. 70% of firms have had at least eight hoursdowntime per incident, and almost half have had more than oneday downtime per incident.  One quarter have experiencedpermanent data loss.It almost would be too easy to talkabout Domino's multiplatform characteristics, single mailbox per user deployments,and shared-nothing clustering at this point.  The survey results wouldbe substantially different for IBM Lotus Domino customers.  Hmmm...