Think Your Computer Tape Backup is Keeping Your Company’s Data Safe from Loss or Corruption? You Won’t After Reading This…

If you can’t afford to go without your company data for hours – possibly even days or weeks – and you are using a tape or USB hard drive backup system, then I urge you to read on.

Scary But True Facts About Data Backup:

• 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% have found failures.
• The Government reports that over 75% of businesses that have a major data loss go out of business within 18 months.
• Over ½ of critical corporate data resides on unprotected desktops and laptops.
• Key causes for data loss are:
  • 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 frequently back up their files, yet 85% of those same users say they are very concerned about losing important digital data.
• More than 22% said backing up was on their to-do list, but they seldom do it.
• 1 in 25 notebooks are stolen, broken or destroyed each year.
• Today’s hard drives store 500 times the data stored on the drives of a decade ago. This increased capacity amplifies the impact of data loss.
• You have a 30% chance of having a corrupted file within a one-year time frame.

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