Even The Best
Hard Drives Die. Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes are witnessing an
explosion in the volume of data they hold.
Whether it is the result of the Internet,
email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive
growth in the volume of data all around.
Conservative estimates place data growth at
approximately 80% per year. Data is
increasingly being recognized as one of the
real assets of a company, and losing this data
would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data
loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business
(SMB) market where the difference between
survival and closure can rest on the ability
to recover from a disaster. At the very least,
critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
|
Data type |
Time to re-create 20 MB
|
Cost |
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Sales and marketing |
19 days |
$17,000 |
|
Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
|
Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The
financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal
action, and the cost of re-creating data. A
study showed that the cost of re-creating just
20 MB of data can be extensive!
Your
best solution, is an external drive service as
a backup. You can have multiple drives, and
it is much easier restore from a portable
external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs. |
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