Jump in power failures as cause of business disruption
SunGard Availability Services, a leading provider of business continuity services, has released its annual analysis of major causes of business disruption to its clients in the UK
Whilst hardware failures have historically accounted for the majority of invocations (client call-outs to assist with disruption), this trend has been in steady decline since 2005 and last year for the first time power failure was just as likely to cause a disaster with both contributing 27% of all invocations.
The number of invocations resulting from power supply problems rose by 100%. SunGard also saw a huge rise (1,300%) in invocations caused by communications failures, which jumped into third place, responsible for 17% of all invocations. In 2009, denial of access in the workplace was up by 600% with the main causes being the G20 summit, fire and gas leaks.
