Data Backup Overview

"Imagine Losing All Your Important Files,

Is Not of What Files You Loss

but The Loss in Time, Money and Effort You Are Invested In"

Based on statistics gathered from various sources:

1. 6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year and approximately 4.6 million data loss episodes. At a conservative estimate, data loss cost billion of dollars.
2. 30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within five years.
3. 31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond their control.
4. 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
5. 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
6. 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.
7. Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive. (Strategic Research Institute)
8. Simple drive recovery can cost upwards of RM 23,340 and success is not guaranteed.

"What Is Your Cost of Downtime?"

Data loss can occur in many matters. According to a global report, it identifies 6 main causes of loss of data:

1. Hardware failure, including damage by power surge and drive failure (42%)
2. Human error, including accidental deletion (31%)
3. Software file corruption (13%)
4. Virus-infection (7%)
5. Theft, especially laptop theft, (5%)
6. Hardware loss, including floods, fires, lightning, power failure (3%)

"Don't Wait to Find Out. Backup Your DATA Now!!!"