M&A activity in the technology sector 2016 has posed a significant risk to business continuity among UK organisations, claims Peter Groucutt, MD at Databarracks, who warns that specialist continuity providers are slowly being swallowed up into wider service offerings.
He said: "The ongoing acquisitions we're seeing are causing long-term problems for the market. Specialist disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) companies are being swallowed up by larger cloud providers, and their services packaged as part of a wider offering, leaving many customers with a provider who is a jack-of-all-trades but master of none.
"A specialist disaster recovery provider has the core task of getting a business back up and running as quickly as possible, and has the advantage of experience. Specialist DR providers will have performed thousands of recoveries and have highly skilled teams of experienced experts that can confidently and competently tackle the complex task of a restore, with minimum disruption to your business."