Hard Facts about Data Loss

• The average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100% -- All drives will eventually fail!
• Only 34% of companies test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found failures.
• 60% of companies that lose their data will go out of business within 6 months of the disaster.
• More than 50% of critical corporate data sits on unprotected PC desktops and laptops.
• Key causes of data loss are:
  • 78%: hardware or system malfunction
  • 11%: human error
  • 7%: software corruption or program malfunction
  • 2%: computer viruses
  • 1%: natural disasters
  • 1%: other
• Only 25% of users routinely back up their files, yet 85% of those same users say they are very concerned about losing important digital data.
• More than 22% said backing up their PCs was on their to-do list, yet they seldom do it.
• 30% of companies report that they still do not have a disaster recovery program in place and 2 out of 3 feel their data backup and disaster recovery plans have significant vulnerabilities.
• 1 in 25 notebooks are stolen, broken or destroyed each year.
• Today's hard drives store 500 times the data stored on the drives of a decade ago, exponentially increasing the impact of data loss.
• You have a 30% chance of having a corrupted file within a one-year time frame.

Source: VaultLogix