Basic Facts
• 6% of all PC's have an episode of severe data loss per year
• 70% of all companies go out of business after a major data loss
• 80% of data loss incidents cost an average of $577
• 20% of data loss incidents cost companies an average of $20,557
Recovering from Data Loss
Companies who experience a computer outage lasting for more than 10 days
will never fully recover financially, and 50 percent of those companies will be out of business within 5 years.Cause of Data Loss:
• Hardware failure 40%
• Human error 29%
• Software corruption 13%
• Computer viruses 6%
• Hardware destruction 3%
• Laptop theft 9%
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