Seventy eight percent of Middle-East users become irate within just one hour of email downtime

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Further survey highlights:
Across all countries surveyed, Middle East IT managers have the least understanding of how long it would take to restore emails following downtime, and how far back emails can be recovered from, with 26% and 54% respectively answering these questions "don't know."
IT Managers in the Middle East have one of the highest rates of job security across all countries surveyed, with 42% saying that their email system could be down for any length of time, and their job would not be at risk. (Highest was Italy, 50%, and joint second with Middle East is South Africa - at 42%).

Fast Facts About the VERITAS VISION Conference
In addition to the electronic communications research findings being revealed to attendees of the VERITAS VISION seminar, other salient points about the event include:
More than 400 decision-makers from the region are registered to attend VERITAS VISION;
VERITAS Middle East has invested more than AED 1 million in hosting the first-ever VISION event in the region;
Sponsors at the event include Brocade, Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Overland, Protechnology, STME, StorageTek, and Sun Microsystems, who will host partner pavilions showcasing their storage-related solutions;
The VISION event in the Middle East is part of a global series also visiting London, Madrid, Stockholm, Warsaw, Paris, Milan, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, and Zurich, and;
John Poulter, Vice President, Sales, Emerging Markets, EMEA, and Dr. Chris Boorman, Vice President, Marketing, EMEA, are among the VERITAS corporate executives taking part in the VISION conference.

Further details:
The research was conducted by Dynamic Markets on behalf of VERITAS Software. The respondents were from medium to large-scale organisations employing 500+ staff. The cross industry sample covered 850 IT Managers with the responsibility of maintaining the back-office email environment.

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