DR Business Future Potential

[kennethwy0504]

Hi All,

I'm new in this business and I would like to find out more from all gurus of this forum, about the future potential of this industry. Any advice/ comments are most appreciated.

Beside, spoke to a friend of mine recently, pretty senior in corporate world and he gave me the statement below:

"Why should people bother to recover their data while there are so many ways of backing up data, especially for corporate users. Corporate are practicing compliances or best practices to prevent data loss (always keep the hard copy for a years), hence the worst case if to hire a few data entries to restore the data. DR service doesn't seems to be their first choice."

any comment? and it would very much appreciated if you could provide me some real life examples why the corporate entity still need this service.

Thanks

[dmarques]

Well, one thing is clear. Your friend didn't make a good research.

[kennethwy0504]

Hi,

Why said so, dmarques?

Beside, according to the my finding, one of the DR company in my country received 150 over cases every month (Let's just give a benefit of doubt, 150 cases per month still a big number to me). Anyone out there experienced it before, or even better than that?

Thanks

[hddguy]

We usually work with around 200 cases each week, thats roughly 10,000 a year. I have heard that Ontrack deal with abour 40,000 every year, though that is globally.

[kennethwy0504]

Hi hddguy,

We usually work with around 200 cases each week, thats roughly 10,000 a year. I have heard that Ontrack deal with abour 40,000 every year, though that is globally.

That's what confused me the most hahaaa .. no matter how advance the backup solutions are, people are still ended up with DR service.

hddguy, how many DR engineer to you have in order to handle 200 cases each week? The reason I'm asking this question is because there are many DR companies from my country are only running by 2 or max 3 persons in the company, and the best part is they have no plan to hire any more engineers to help them up no matter how much work they have.

Anyway, thanks for sharing hddguy

[sempre]

Hi to all!!

I think that he dates recovery is not amount and yes quality in the services!

[kennethwy0504]

Hi to all!!

I think that he dates recovery is not amount and yes quality in the services!

Understood that, but the amount of case will indicates how great the demand is. So if there is only 100 people looking for DR service each month and yet 100 of DR companies are hunting for business, then I think we shouldn't waste our time to look into this business anymore

[zed]

kennethwy0504, i don't know why you are trying to make these arguments - you are telling this to a group of data recovery experts, most of them running their own business and relying on the income generated by this data recovery business. I doubt many people are going to argue with you. You should find a forum on 'disaster recovery solutions' and i'm sure a lot of people may agree with you there.