This is why we have dedicated a specific section to help businesses make smart choices and employ best practices in storing and maintaining their data.
Important Disaster Statistics:
- 40 percent of businesses never reopen after catastrophic data loss[1].
- 50 percent of all businesses will fail within three years if they cannot recover lost data within 24 hours[2].
- 93 percent of businesses go on to fail if data is lost for 10 days or more[2].
What the Experts Have to Say:
- "If you're expanding core storage, rather than just backing it up (on a server, for example), consider investing in a multidrive RAID system with built-in redundancy. This will protect you from drive meltdowns, though you should also have an off-site or Internet backup plan to guard against disasters like fires and floods. Look for RAID 1 or RAID 5 support; either arrangement will let you replace a failed drive without losing data." (read more)
- Becky Waring, "Choose the Right Backup for Your Business" - PC World - "Thou shalt protect thy data! Too often, backup is not perceived as a strategic, value-added activity for small businesses. As a result, critical data is left at risk. Every business, regardless of size, needs a data protection strategy to ensure business continuity. By nature, small businesses may not have as much data as large enterprises, but critical business data is critical business data. Something as minor, and as inevitable, as a virus, power outage or human error, can be even more disastrous to a small business, relatively speaking, than to a large enterprise." (read more)
- Bob Cramer, "The Seven Deadly Sins Small Businesses Commit in Backup and Recovery" - BNet
[1] U.S. Department of Labor
[2] National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.
[2] National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.