A new study confirms what a great many people in IT already suspected: Companies of all sizes are <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/Most-Companies-Walk-a-HighWire-Email-Risk-Without-a-Net/?kc=EWKNLNAV012808STR4">vulnerable to costly and damaging email outages</A> because they trust their messaging infrastructure to a single server and do not have an adequate backup and recovery plan in case of a disaster.

ApplicationContinuity.org surveyed 434 IT professionals responsible for email continuity in small (0-99 employees), medium (100-999 employees) and large (1,000 or more employees) enterprises. ResearchCorp.org provided the analysis.

The goal was to determine whether companies are prepared to deliver email continuity--particularly for Microsoft Exchange--and whether companies have a plan in place to secure email communication during a local or sitewide failure or downtime event.