Global studies have shown that…
- annually over 6% of computers lose data – that is 1.7 million workstations in Europe and 4.6 million computers in the US. Annually data loss does damage to American entrepreneurs in an amount of US $11.8 billion.
- 30% of entrepreneurs cease their entrepreneurship within a year after data was lost, 70% — within 5 years.
- 31% of computer users have minimum twice lost ALL data.
- 60% of entrepreneurs that lost ALL data cease their entrepreneurship within 6 months after data was lost.
- 93% of companies that have not managed within 10 days to regain access (recover) to lost data suffer bankruptcy. 50% of entrepreneurs left without data for 10 days go bankrupt immediately.
- According to the analyst from Strategic Research Institute, companies that have not managed to recover data within 10 days usually do not survive.
- Recovery of one hard disk drive may cost several hundreds or even thousands US dollars and there are no guarantees that data is recoverable.
- 23% of companies face data backup copy problems.
- 28% said that they often are not in the position to recover data.
- 38% of companies say that data recovery takes a lot of time.
- 58% of companies plan to replace their backup systems to virtual systems in the nearest 24 months.