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Don't Worry About Data Loss... Plan For It

WHY YOU NEED A BACKUPOF THE DATA YOU CARE ABOUT

We’ve all had that terrible moment when hours of hard work on a professional presentation have gone down the drain after mistakenly

deleting a near-perfect PowerPoint.

For business owners, lost data can mean thousands of lost dollars in revenue or productivity, and in some regulated industries, it can mean

costly fines.

March 31st is World Backup Day, and we want to remind all computer users to take a copy or two of the data they care about.

1. DATA LOSS IS AS INEVITABLEAS DEATH AND TAXESUNLESS YOU HAVE A BACKUP.

Hardware failures account for 27% of data loss incidents.

26% of lost data incidents are due to human error in 2018.

21% of data loss is due to data corruption

2. NOT HAVING A BACKUPCOMES WITH A STEEP PRICE...

IT knows well how costly data loss can be. On an individual level, a failed backup or recovery process can cost an IT pro his or her job.

For any organization, the costs can go into the six figures.

• According to Gartner, the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute

• 98% of organizations say a single hour of downtime cost over $100,000

• 33% reported that one hour of downtime costs their firms $1-5 million

Managers might have the impression that “data in the cloud is safe and is backed up”. That’s just not the case.

Microsoft will only guarantee 90%of your data for 30 days.

Top 5 causes of data loss in the cloud

1. Human Error2. Viruses/ Malware3. Deactivated employee accounts4. Disgruntled employees5. Data being overwritten

3. JUST BECAUSEYOU'RE IN THE CLOUD

DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE BACKED UP

4. BACKING UP IS HARD BECAUSEWE ARE CREATING TOO MUCH DATA

One out of ten IT pros states ‘they have too much data’ to back up on a daily basis. This happens in an era of uncontrolled digital expansion, where:

• everyone brings their high-tech devices to work• anyone can produce high-quality photos and videos with their mobile

devices

• large files end up being stored on company systems

The sheer volume of data makes it hard to manage, so companies end up with massive quantities of unstructured data.

5. BUT SOME BACKUPSARE SMARTER THAN OTHERS...

Technology now allows us to keep data always safe, always accessible and always optimized – wherever it is stored: on-premises, in the cloud or on hybrid systems. 

• Intelligent backup solutions that bring a unified, SLA-driven management for the complete data protection lifecycle

• Inexpensive converged scale-out storage eliminatescomplexity and breaks down data silos

• Access cloud data anywhere, anytime using this highly distributed andfault-tolerant disaster recovery cloud with 99.999+ percent uptime.

• Cloud backups keep all your SaaS data safe and recoverable

Whatever disaster you are worried about, we can help. 

Where your Data Is Always Safe, Always Accessible, Always Optimized

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scale-out storage platform, with integrated data protection, solves data growth challenges, is efficient and easy to use for on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid deployments.

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