Is your data safe?
Think of the countless hours you spend on your creations, records, employee and client information. Your business continuity depends heavily on your digital records and infrastructure. If its not backed up, what could happen?
Contact us today to discuss back-up, off-site storage and retention of your invaluable data.
Here are some statistics that will give you some good reasons to backup your valuable data.
Key causes for unplanned downtime:
25% Hardware
25% Software
21% Network
15% Human error
14% Environmental
Source: Gartner Group 2009
Suddenly losing all your mission critical data can put you out of business.
25% of all PC users suffer from data loss each year.
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.
15% of all laptops are stolen or suffer hard drive failures.
What if you or your sales people lost their laptop and it had no recent backup?
$61,881 …the average loss due to laptop theft. No. 2 cause of PC loss is theft.
$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. 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. Even equipped with the latest antivirus software, viruses continue to pose a serious threat to your most valuable asset.
80% of computer crime consists of “inside jobs” by disgruntled employees.
80% of surveyed companies admitted financial losses due to computer breeches.
100% the failure rate of disks and tape drives — all drives eventually fail.
Sources: (1) Gartner Group; (2) IDC; (3) Contingency Planning & Strategic Research Corp.; (4) TrendMicro; (5) DTI/PriceWaterhouse Coopers, 2004; (6) CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey; (7) Safeware The Insurance Agency; (5) Gartner Group; (6) CSI/FBI 2009 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.
Make sure to take the time to backup your data today. Don’t take the risk of going out of business! Contact us today. We will ascertain the most cost effective and reliable backup solution for your data.
