A data recovery specialist has warned that the human element is behind the rising number of data losses with corporate enterprises, and has outlined some of the most common mistakes being made.
However the experts at Kroll Ontrack are blaming the rising number of human mistakes on the increasingly complex storage systems, as well as depleted resources in the current economic climate.
Last month Kroll noted a massive rise in data loss incidents since the recession began. Back then it said that this mirrored a trend last seen in the previous recession. However the surge was blamed on cost-cutting exercises, such as shrinking IT departments and budgets. The result, said Kroll, was that companies were cutting corners and human error was causing prolific data loss.
Now Kroll Ontrack has compiled a list of the top human mistakes that are being made. These include:
“While advanced storage options such as virtualisation and cloud computing offer corporations storage optimisation, human processes are still at the root of these solutions, instructing the technology as to how to perform,” said Phil Bridge, managing director at Kroll Ontrack UK. “The complexity of these systems often requires a steep learning curve. With reported IT spending at a low, human error is increasingly common.”
Kroll also cited the following real examples of human error cases it has encountered:
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