You can't work on your computer today!
What if...
Storms last
night damaged your server and client files and documents were unrecoverable.
Your backup was destroyed or damaged and now what?
Startling
Statistics:
70 percent of
small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.
Contingency
Planning, Strategic Research Corp and DTI/Price Waterhouse Coopers
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Of companies
experiencing catastrophic data loss:
• 43% of
companies never reopened
• 51% of
companies closed within 2 years
University of Texas Center for Research on
Information Systems
• 80% of
companies that do not recover from a disaster within one month are likely to go
out of business.
Jonathan Bernstein, president, Bernstein
Crisis Management
• 75% of
companies without business continuity plans fail within three years of a
disaster
Bruce Blythe, CEO, Crisis Management
International in Blindsided: A Manager’s Guide to Catastrophic Incidents in the
Workplace By Bruce T. Blythe
• Of those
businesses that experience a disaster and have no emergency plan, 43 percent
never reopen; of those that do reopen, only 29 percent are still operating two
years later.
The Hartford’s Guide to Emergency
Preparedness Planning
WOW!
This all might
seem so obvious, that it is hard to conceive of any small business that does
not frequently back up its key data. The SBA tells all small business owners:
“Make back-up copies of all tax, accounting, payroll and production records and
customer data on computer hard drives, and store the records at an offsite
location at least 100 miles away.
Are you prepared
in the event of a data-erasing natural disaster, server failure, virus attack
or other 'digital crisis?'
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