References
"My advice to businesses is DON'T WAIT until it's too late to backup your critical data, start IMMEDIATELY!"
Source: CEO
"We were up and running in minutes."
Source: IT Director
"No need for unencryted tapes or external drives anymore. The best part is that ONLY I have access to my data."
Source: Director of IT & Media
"They got my customer up and running after an initial load quickly."
Source: IT Service Professional
"What a quick and easy implementation."
Source: IT Professional
"I thought we were covered with our tape backup, but they discovered in just a few minutes that we was NOT covered and in fact at great risk of massive data loss! They know what they are doing.."
Source: Chief Financial Officier
Industry Statistics
Key causes of data loss:
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78% hardware & system malfunction
11% Human Error
7% Software Corruption or Program Malfunction
2% Computer Virus
1% Natural Disasters
1% Other |
"40% of computer users have lost irreplaceable content ... only 56% stored or backed up their content... only 5% of people back up their files online, dispite the risks involved with replying on physical media like external hard drives, DVD's and USB sticks."
Source: Zoomerang, Aug 2009
"The average failure rate of disk and tape drive is 100% - ALL drives eventually fail."
Source: Wikibooks, Minimizing hard drive failure and data loss
"More than 50% of small businesses surveyed said that their current backup solution does not meet their needs."
Source: Online Backup Review Jan 2009
"93% of small to medium business backup their data to tape(1). 34% do not test their backups and those tested, over 50% found their tape backups fail to recover(2)."
Sources: Gartner Group & Storage Magazine
"As much as 60% of corporate data resides unprotected on PC desktop and laptops."
Source: Forester, Data Recovery
"25% of users frequently backup digital files, while 85% of computer users say they are very concerned about losing important digital data."
Source: Google Survey
"The average partner program terminates in 3-12 months and provides no support."
Source: MS Research
"More than 22% of users said backing up information is on their to-do list, but they seldom do it."
Source: Facts about Data Loss, by Lee Morrell
"34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures."
Source: Boston Computing Network, Data Loss Statistics
"1 in 20-25 notebooks are stolen, broken or destroyed EACH year."
Source: PC-GURU
"30% chance that you will have a corrupted file within a one-year time frame."
Source: Pacific Computer Consultants
"Today's hard drives store 500 times the data stored on the drives of a decade ago. Increasing storage capacities amplify the impact of data loss, making mechanical precision more critical."
Source: Pacific Computer Consultants
"Over 90% of backup utilities do not meet compliance and encryption standards required by law or regulatory authorities."
"60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months."
Source: Boston Computing Network, Data Loss Statistics
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