Friday, January 25, 2008

Do you have a backup system in place?

Protect your data: back up to tape, disk and the network

Data Loss Facts:

  • U.S. businesses lose over $12 billion per year because of data loss.
  • Hardware or system failure accounts for 78% of all data loss.
  • Human error accounts for 11% of all data loss.
  • Software corruption account for 7% of all data loss.
  • Natural disasters account for only 1% of all data loss.
  • More vital data is being stored in smaller spaces.
  • Instant access to electronic data has become more crucial in day-to-day business.
  • Disaster prevention and recovery plans are often overlooked or outdated.
  • Backup tools and techniques are not 100% reliable.
  • 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
  • File corruption and data loss are becoming much more common, although loss of productivity continues to be the major cost associated with a virus disaster. (Source: 7th Annual ICSA Lab's Virus Prevalence Survey, March 2002)
  • The average company spends between $100,000 and $1,000,000 in total ramifications per year for desktop-oriented disasters (both hard and soft costs.) (Source: 7th Annual ICSA Lab's Virus Prevalence Survey, March 2002)
Data protection technology enables you to store your business data for archival and disaster recovery purposes. Set up a tape or disk-to-disk automated backup. You want to create a complete data protection solution for your business.

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