Zerto, rapidly becoming the disaster recovery standard in virtualized data centers for both enterprises and cloud service providers, today released an infographic titled "5 Ways to Master Disaster Recovery."  The infographic was created based on data the company collected from a survey of 356 IT professionals.

Data center outages are frequent and companies find themselves ill prepared:

• At least 76% of respondents have experienced an outage in the past year
• 42% of respondents experienced an outage in the last six months and 86% of those incidents were caused by something other than a natural disaster
• 26-50% of the applications in data centers are considered business-critical and yet 7% of companies have no DR plan at all

Legacy DR solutions are not providing desired levels of protection:

• 71.5% of respondents have a backup-based solution that they use for disaster recovery,
• 53% of those surveyed note "complexity" as one of the biggest challenges of disaster recovery
• 30% of respondents have 75% or more of their environment protected with a DR plan, but 77% are not fully confident it will work
• 36% test their DR solution only once a year and another 18% have never tested their DR solution

"Though more than three quarters of respondents reported having experienced an outage in the last 12 months, and many have a DR solution in place, few are confident their DR solution will actually work," said Ziv Kedem, co-founder and CEO, Zerto. "This study reflects that while many solutions are available for disaster recovery, no legacy solutions are providing the service levels and simplicity needed for mission-critical application protection in virtualized and cloud environments." 

Check out this great InfoGraphic explaining the results: