Dive Brief:
- A new report from Evolve, an IT services company selling cloud space, shows education institutions are more likely to lose critical data than their peer organizations in the business, government, and nonprofit sectors — and more likely to lose it forever.
- Respondents cited budget constraints for their poor outcomes, according to Campus Technology, and only 42% of respondents thought they had enough money in their disaster recovery budgets. That’s in contrast to 63% of respondents, who thought so in the for-profit realm.
- Environmental disaster was one of the leading causes of data loss, and just more than a quarter of education institutions left themselves especially vulnerable by having their secondary data operations close enough to the main site to be hit by the same natural disaster.
Dive Insight:
In the modern world of computer record-keeping, safeguarding data is critical. While the recent report by Evolve found three quarters of institutions do have a plan in place when disaster strikes, that was only true of 62% of organizations in the education world. Data losses affect staff productivity and limit the functionality of an organization. Educators would do well to learn from their business peers in planning for the worst-case disaster scenario. Increasingly, there is too much to lose.