Don't
become another statistic: The odds are against you if you don't have a solid
backup and disaster recovery plan.
But don't just take our word for
it, review these startling statistics:
- 25% of all PC
users suffer from data loss each year. (1)
1 in 4 -- Are you willing to risk your business or job with these odds?
- 7 of 10 small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business
within a year (5)
- 15% of all laptops are stolen or suffer hard drive failures (1)
What if you or your sales people lost their laptop and it had no recent
backup?
- $12 Billion annual cost of data loss.
Can you afford to not back up your data?
- 96% of all business workstations are not being backed up (3)
While servers are typically backed up, companies rarely back up individual
PCs containing valuable data generated by employees every day.
- $55 Billion annual computer virus damages to U.S. businesses (4)
Even equipped with the latest antivirus software, viruses continue to pose
a serious threat to your most valuable asset.
- 100% the failure rate of disks and tape drives -- all drives eventually
fail.
Who is monitoring your data protection process? Are you sure you can recover?
(1) Gartner Group; (2) IDC; (3) Contingency Planning & Strategic Research Corp.; (4) TrendMicro; (5) DTI/PriceWaterhouse Coopers, 2004
Cost of Recreating Your Lost Data
According to the National Computer Security Association, without adequate
backup it takes:
19 days and $17,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost sales/marketing data;
21 days and $19,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost accounting data;
42 days and $98,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost engineering data.
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