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.