Small Business Backup is Not Necessary

Small business backup is not necessary if you want to go out of business. Are you prepared to get up and running if your computers got destroyed?

What would you do if you showed up to your business and all your computers were missing because they were stolen?

It is really expensive to recreate your data or to recover data from damaged hard drives. If your data protection infrastructure is fragile, your business is fragile. You are more at risk of losing it all because of data loss than you think.

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)

The number 2 cause of overall 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.

Many small business owners don't realize how close they are to going out of business. All it takes is one virus! Or, you could have your lap top stolen or a disgruntled employee could thrash your data.

Small business backup is essential to protect your business. Not protecting your data is extremely risky and expensive. It is inevitable...you will lose data. The question is whether or not you are protected. Take measures today to protect your data!

There are many ways to protect your data, but the best is to backup your data through a secure remote backup provider. This type of provider should be able to backup your data without you even having to think about it. The price that you pay for this type of service is a small fraction of what it costs to lose data or to recreate data. Make small business backup a high priority.

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