Statistic on business data backups

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34% never test their back-ups and of
those that do 77% are found to not work
Annual costs to keep daily backups for SME
20 minutes per day
x 260 working days
=
10 working
days p/a
10 working days
@ £200 per day
=
£2000
(partner/IT manager
earning approx. £50k)
Cost of hardware, backup
tapes, maintenance etc.
=
£400
(Approx)
Rough cost to do daily
backups in-house
=
£2400p/a
(Approx)
Source:LondonChamberofCommerce
50of all organisations have
a business continuity plan
80of companies have not developed any crisis
management to provide IT coverage sufficient to
keep the business functioning effectively
43of companies that do have a business
continuity plan do not test it annually
40of companies that do have crisis
management plans do not have a team
dedicated to disaster recovery
90of businesses that lose data from
a disaster are forced to shut down
within 2 years of the disaster
50of businesses experiencing
a computer outage will be
forced to shut within 5 years
40
25
35
10
93
of small and medium-sized
businesses don’t back up their data.
of businesses have lost data due
to flawed IT security
of computer owners have never
backed up their computer
of people back up their
data daily
of people still use
local storage
Common Reasons for Data Loss
Hardware
Failure
Human
Error
Software
Corruption
Theft Computer
Viruses
Destruction
(floods, fires)
Cloud storage services are used by
over 400 million users worldwide.
In 2011, 7% of consumer content was
stored in the cloud, this is expected to
grow to 36% by 2016.