National Archives and Records Administration in Washington

• 2 out of every 5 firms never re-open after a major data loss

American Red Cross

• A residential fire occurs every 79 seconds.

PC Magazine

• An estimated 24.5 million windows XP machines crash every day.

Ontrack Data Recovery, Inc., 2002 - Based on actual data recoveries performed by Ontrack

Leading causes of Data Loss

• 44% Hardware Malfunction

• 32% Human Error

• 14% Software Corruption

• 7% Computer Virus

• 3% Natural Disaster

Mozy Online Backup

• Every Week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States.

Reality Times, Inc.

• A Hard Drive crashes every 15 seconds

• 2,000 laptops are stolen or lost every day

• 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

• 1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime

Relational Business Systems

• 40% of small and medium-sized businesses do not back up their data at all

• 40-50% of all backups are not recoverable