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If you are not backing up the data for your small business, you are at risk of going out of business.

Here are some statistics that will give you some good reasons to backup your valuable data.

Key causes for unplanned downtime:

25% Hardware
25% Software
20% Network
15% Human error
14% Environmental

Source: Gartner Group 2001

Suddenly losing all your mission critical data can put you out of business.

25% of all PC users suffer from data loss each year. (1)

1 in 4 -- Are you willing to risk your business or job with these odds?

7 of 10 small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business
within a year (5)

15% of all laptops are stolen or suffer hard drive failures (1)
What if you or your sales people lost their laptop and it had no recent backup?

$61,881 ...the average loss due to laptop theft. (6)

No. 2 ...cause of overal PC loss is theft. (7)

$12 Billion annual cost of data loss.
Can you afford to not back up your data?

96% of all business workstations are not being backed up (3)
While servers are typically backed up, companies rarely back up individual PCs containing
valuable data generated by employees every day.

$55 Billion annual computer virus damages to U.S. businesses (4)
Even equipped with the latest antivirus software, viruses continue to pose a serious threat to your most valuable asset.

80% ...of computer crime consists of "inside jobs" by disgruntled employees. (1)

80% ...of surveyed companies admitted financial losses due to computer breeches. 6

100% the failure rate of disks and tape drives -- all drives eventually fail.

(1) Gartner Group; (2) IDC; (3) Contingency Planning & Strategic Research Corp.; (4) TrendMicro; (5) DTI/PriceWaterhouse

Coopers, 2004; (6) CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey; (7) Safeware The Insurance Agency; (5) Gartner Group; (6)

CSI/FBI 2002 Cost of Recreating Your Lost Data

According to the National Computer Security Association, without adequate backup it takes:

19 days and $17,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost sales/marketing data;
21 days and $19,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost accounting data;
42 days and $98,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost engineering data.

If you do not backup your data, you are at serious risk of losing your business. You could be apart of these statistics, if you don't take measures to protect your data.

Jeff Newman is the CEO of Technee Data Backups - You can protect all your files automatically offsite with our Small Business Backup service for just a few dollars a month. Take our service out for a free 30-Day Trial today. Small Business Backup Free Trial



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