Some
Statistics about Data Loss
“6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data
loss in any given year. Given the number of PCs used in US businesses in 1998,
that translates to approximately 4.6 million data loss episodes.”
(The Cost Of
Lost Data, David M. Smith)
“30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within
a year.
Seventy percent fail within five years.”
(Home Office Computing Magazine)
“93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a
disaster
filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.”
“50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same
time
period filed for bankruptcy immediately.”
(National Archives & Records
Administration in Washington)
“Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a
disaster hit)
are not likely to survive.”
(Strategic Research
Institute)
Boston Computing
http://www.bostoncomputing.net/consultation/databackup/statistics/
A national Harris Interactive survey of 597 computer
users conducted for Imation, Corp., reveals:
- “Nearly three out of five personal computer users have lost an electronic
file they thought they
had sufficiently stored.”
- “One in four users frequently back up digital files, even when 85 percent of
computer users say they
are very concerned about losing
important digital data.”
- “82 percent keep a hard copy of important documents they've also saved
electronically.”
- “Thirty-seven percent of the survey's respondents admitted to backing up
their files less
than once per month.”
- “Nine percent admitted they have never backed up their files.”
- “More than 22 percent said backing up information is on their to-do list,
but they seldom do it.”
Among home computer users who backup information:
- “68 percent save the things most important to them in multiple places, the
hard drive as well as
removable media such as floppy disks (79 percent)
compact disks (CDs, 58 percent).”
Reality Times
http://realtytimes.com/rtcpages/20020920_computing.htm
A useful feature: Vigilance backed up data
can be restored to any location or system.
Click
here for 20 Good Reasons to use Vigilance
Click here for a discussion
on Data Loss.
(c) Saracen, 2007