Expert Technology support that gives you the freedom to focus on Your Business - Not your IT!
Reliable backups, like insurance are of prime importance to every business.
Although your backup process may be automated - it needs to be monitored daily to ensure no errors occurred. In the situation you need to restore there can be no worse outcome for your business, than to find out that due to staff error or system failure this is not possible. It has become apparent that there are situations where the backup has reported successful, but a simple restore did not work. Although in most situations DPL Technology could restore the backup - it was not possible in a timely, efficient manner. As such, we are improving the arrangement.
DPL Technology is offering a new Backup & Virus Check including:
- Standard backup notification check Monday to Friday
- Weekly restore check (including a random test restore on files/email (where applicable)
- Anti-Virus validation check - Validates that all licenses are compliance and checks for unprotected computers (McAfee customers only).
100% peace of mind, empowering you to refocus on you core business!
Just for the record - Backup Statistics!
Corporations have steadily moved critical applications and data from the mainframe to servers, and now to desktop and mobile PCs. In fact, in a recent IDC report, more than 300 million business PCs have a combined 109,000 terabytes of data that is not backed up regularly and, "as much as 60% of corporate data resides unprotected on PC desktops and laptops."
Source: IDC analyst Cynthia Doyle
Of those companies participating in the 2004 Cost of Downtime Survey:
46% said each hour of downtime would cost their companies up to $50k
28% said each hour would cost between $51K and $250K
18% said each hour would cost between $251K and $1 million
8% said it would cost their companies more than $1 million per hour
Source: 2001 Cost of Downtime Survey Results
Miscellaneous stats about computer data loss:
A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds
2,000 laptops are stolen or lost every day
32% of data loss is caused by human error
31% of PC users have lost all of their PC files to events beyond their control
25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive
44% of data loss caused by mechanical failures
15% or more of laptops are stolen or suffer hard drive failures
1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime
The overall average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100% - all drives eventually fail
Stats about business backup practices:
40% of Small and Medium Sized Businesses don't back up their data at all
60% of all data is held on PC Desktops and laptops
40 - 50% of all backups are not fully recoverable and up to 60% of all backups fail in general
One-third of all computers sold are notebooks
Mobile workers in Australia have represented the majority of the workforce since 2003
Stats about the cost of recouping data:
It takes 19 days and costs $17,000 to retype 20 megabytes of sales data
The same volume of accounting data takes 21 days and costs $19,000
Recreating data from scratch is estimated to cost between $2000 and $8000 per MB
Insurance of business data is expensive, and in certain countries, insurance companies will not insure data
60% of companies that lose their data close down within 6 months of the disaster
72% of businesses that suffer major data loss disappear within 24 months
A national Harris Interactive survey of 597 computer users reveals:
Nearly three out of five personal computer users have lost an electronic file they thought they had sufficiently stored
One in four users frequently back up digital files, even when 85 percent of computer users say they are very concerned about losing important digital data
82 percent keep a hard copy of important documents they've also saved electronically
Thirty-seven percent of the survey's respondents admitted to backing up their files less than once per month
Nine percent admitted they have never backed up their files
More than 22 percent said backing up information is on their to-do list, but they seldom do it
Source: Realty Times
