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Survey says business and IT have different view of need for disaster recovery systems

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Business executives and IT managers take a far different view of the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives within a company, according to a survey released Tuesday by Harris Interactive Inc.Featuring feedback from 176 corporate executives and 351 IT managers, the survey found that 71% of the latter group called disaster recovery and business continuity important or crucial to a business, compared with only 49% of business executives. The Cost & Implications of Unplanned System/Application Downtime survey was commissioned by SunGard Availability Services, a unit of SunGard Data Systems Inc., and conducted in February and March 2007.Dave Palermo, vice president of Marketing for Wayne, Penn.-based SunGard Availability Services, a provider of disaster recovery services, said the survey also found that 66% of IT managers deem uninterrupted information availability a major priority -- worthy of virtually unlimited funding -- compared with 54% of business executives.

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