Disaster Recovery Statistics Every Business Should Know
1. Without a Disaster Recovery plan survival rate is less than 10%.
Source: Coopers and Lybrand
2. Only 35% of Small Businesses have a Disaster Recovery Plan.
Source: Coopers and Lybrand
3. Statistics for the those who store their information on-site:
The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) finds that of organizations that house their information onsite:
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Only 37% of companies test internal backups regularly
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Of the 37%, an alarming 77% were unable to fully recover
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40% of SMB’s don`t back up their data at all
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60% of companies that lose their data go out of business within 6 months.
Source: AIIM
4. Computer related disasters alone cost American businesses roughly 1 Billion each year.
Source: NCC
5. What is the frequency of data disruption?
1 in 5 Companies report having experienced a major disruption. · 20% of companies lose more than 1 million a year. Source: Coopers and Lybrand 6. Companies lose an average of $84,000 for every hour of downtime. Source: International Data Corp