Little-Known Facts and Insider Secrets Every Business Owner Should Know About Backing Up Their Data and Choosing a Remote Backup Service.

If your data is important to you, you can’t afford to lose it.
Have you ever lost an hour of work on your computer?
Now imagine:

If you lost days or weeks of work,
Losing your client database, financial records, and all of the work files your company has ever produced or compiled.

11 Disaster-Planning Essentials For Your Business Network

If your data is important to you then you can’t afford to lose it.  If this happens, your business operations could be halted for days – even weeks.

Disasters can occur at any time, in any place. Whether they are natural or manmade, they can affect your network and result in lost or corrupted data.

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Backups — Frightening Trends, Cases and Questions You Should Consider.

Tape drives fail on average of 100%. This means all tape drives fail at some point and don’t offer complete protection for your data if a natural disaster, fire, or terrorist attack destroys your office and everything in it. Business owners who were hit by hurricanes like Katrina learned a hard lesson about keeping remote backups of their data.

Shocking But True Facts About Data Loss.

Did you know?

The average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100% – All drives will eventually fail!
Only 34% of companies test their tape backups, and of those who do 77% discover failures!
60% of companies that lose their data will go out of business within 6 months of the disaster!
Over 50% of critical corporate data resides on unprotected PC desktops and laptops!Key causes of data loss::

78% —Hardware or system malfunction
11% —Human error
7% —Software corruption or program malfunction
2% —Computer viruses
1% —Natural disasters
1% —Other

 

Only 25% of users back up their files regularly, yet 85% of those same users say they are very concerned about losing important digital data
More than 22% said backing up their PCs is on their to-do list, but they seldom do it!
30% of companies report that they still don’t have a disaster recovery program in place, and 2 out of 3 believe their data backup and disaster recovery plans contain significant vulnerabilities!
1 in 25 notebooks are stolen, broken or destroyed each year!
Today’s hard drives store 500 times the data stored on drives a decade ago.

Today Is “Zero Day Forever!” Microsoft Has Stopped Publishing Patches for XP

(April 8, 2014) — As of today Microsoft has stopped publishing Windows XP patches.  They’ve named today,  “Zero Day Forever.” Zero-day refers to vulnerabilities hackers use to attack your operating system.

Microsoft will continue to provide anti-malware for Windows XP through July 14, 2015. However, as of today:

Microsoft will technically stop supporting the Windows XP operating system.

Did You Hear The News This Week? Serious Internet Explorer Vulnerability Impacts Business Across The Country.

So serious that Homeland Security issued a warning – read about it here.

Here are some basic steps you should take to prevent devastating IE exploits.

With the recently revealed vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), your computer could be completely taken over if you don’t follow certain precautions.