Critical Disasters Take on Many Forms.

There are many more threats than major or catastrophic events that can cause your business to slow, grind or even screech to a halt. Accidents do and will happen:

• lightning strikes
• floods rise
• buildings burn
• thieves steal
• coffee cups are spilled
• users delete files
• hard drives are formatted
• viruses infect systems
• disk drives and tapes fail
• systems crash

Does any of this sound familiar to you?

The chances of these types of problems occurring are increased exponentially as soon as there are more people accessing the same data files. While not all of them will cause your company to stop completely, those that do not can be highly disruptive, counter productive and damaging at best.

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Compelling global statistics:

• Dependent upon the reporting source, an estimated 33 to 56% of ALL data loss is caused by mechanical failure. A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds.
• To have the data from that single failed disk professionally retrieved will cost you between $1,600 & $5,500 (dep. on HDD capacity). That's IF it is retrievable at all.
• 25% of all lost data is due to the failure of portable media (e.g. External Drives, Backup Tapes, ZIP Drives, Jaz Drives, CDR's).
• The average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100%. ALL drives eventually fail.
• 32% of data loss is caused by human error.
• 40 - 50% of all backups are not fully recoverable and up to 60% of all backups fail in general.
• Tape backup fails to recover data as much as 50% of the time.
• 40% of Small to Medium Sized Businesses don't back up their data at all.
• 60% of all data is held on PC Desktops and laptops.
• It takes approx. 19 days and costs approx. $23,000 to re-type only 20 megabytes of raw unformatted sales data.
• The same volume of accounting data takes approx. 21 days and costs $25,500 to retype.
• The, even partial, loss of business data can put you out of business!
• More than 60% of all businesses that experience a major disaster (fire, theft, crash, etc.) go out of business within the first year.
• Most small businesses don't have a backup plan that fully protects them.