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| Statistics about Computer Data Loss: |
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32% of data loss is caused by human error. |
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Reasons for Data Loss |
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20% of small to medium businesses will suffer a major
disaster causing loss of critical data every 5 years. |
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60% of companies that lose their data close down within 6 months. |
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72% of businesses that suffer a major data loss disappear within 2 years. |
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| Statistics about Computer Hard Drives: |
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Somewhere in the world, a hard drive crashes every 15 seconds. |
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The average failure rate of disk and tape drives are 100%. All drives eventually fail. |
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Actual disk drive failure rates are 15 times what vendors say they are. |
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| Statistics about Data Backups: |
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Only 37% of businesses actually test their internal tape backups regularly, and of those that did, an alarming 77% found they were unable to fully recover data by using the tape backup methods. |
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40% of Small and Medium Sized Businesses don't back up their data at all. |
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60% of all data is held on PC Desktops and laptops. |
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40 - 50% of all backups are not fully recoverable and up to 60% of all backups fail in general. |
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| Statistics about Disaster Recovery Plans: |
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Only 35 percent of small to mid-sized businesses have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan in place. |
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| Statistics about Laptops |
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2,000 laptops are stolen or lost each day. |
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53% of mobile professionals carry confidential company information on their notebook PCs and, of those, 65% don't take steps to protect the data. |
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| Business Practices |
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66% of US employees write down passwords in unsafe places. |
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| Statistics about Hacking |
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40% of small to medium businesses that manage their own network and use the Internet for more than email will have their network accessed by a hacker. More than 50% won't even know they were attacked. |
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| Statistics about the cost of recouping data: |
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It takes 19 days and costs $17,000 to retype 20 megabytes of sales data . The same volume of accounting data takes 21 days and costs $19,000. |
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Recreating data from scratch is estimated to cost between $2000 and $8000 per MB. |
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| Don’t become a Statistic. |
| We encourage you to contact us today to learn more about how you can protect your data and plan for disasters. |
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