How Important Is Your Data?
Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States and millions get infected with viruses. Data loss can cost you both time and money. 93% of all companies that suffer significant data loss close down within 5 years. If your data is important to you, don't wait! Safeguard your pc today to get the lastest in virus protection and data backup services.
Data Loss Statistics
- In 2010 89 percent of enterprises experienced a malware or virus intrusion that
resulted in the loss of sensitive data.
- 6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. Given the
number of PCs used in US businesses in 1998, that translates to approximately
4.6 million data loss episodes. At a conservative estimate, data loss cost US
businesses $11.8 billion in 1998. (The Cost Of Lost Data, David M. Smith)
- 30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year.
70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine)
- 31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond their
control.
- 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77%
have found tape back-up failures.
- 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the
disaster.
- 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a
disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses
that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed
for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in
Washington)
- American business lost more than $7.6 billion as a result of viruses during
first six months of 1999. (Research by Computer Economics)
- Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster
hit) are not likely to survive. (Strategic Research Institute)
- Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. (Mozy Online
Backup)
- Simple drive recovery can cost upwards of $7,500 and success is not
guaranteed.
