| Disaster:
any happening that causes great
harm or damage: calamity |
A disaster could be something as simple as a
user hitting a series of keystrokes that just
happens to bring down your entire account
receivable files, a disaster could be mother
nature at her finest- a fire, flood, or tornado,
or a disaster could be the result of faulty
equipment. Of companies that go through a
disaster that lasting 2 weeks or more, 67%
are out of business within two years.
The necessary
questions to ask yourself are:
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How long could the company operate
without access to it’s mission
critical data? |
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How much is the ability to recover
the company’s data worth? |
Top five causes
of data loss:
- Hardware or software malfunction –
44%
- Human intervention – 32%
- Software Program malfunction – 14%
- Viruses – 7%
- Natural Disasters – 3%
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| The most effective way to avoid disaster is
to prepare your company for disaster. The failure
rate on all hardware in the computer industry is
100%. All computer components, whether hardware
or software, will fail eventually. If you
don’t take the necessary steps to preventing
disaster in your company, who will? To get an
idea of how much time and money it takes to
recreate data, a company that loses 20 MB of data
would spend $17,000 and 19 days recreating that
data.
Two-thirds of companies with networks have
reported some degree of disruption, and 24% of
those respondents had disruptions for longer than
24 hours.
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Extended
Computer Services, Inc. can provide your company
with the protection you need. We have a Disaster
Recovery Plan to fit every budget. ECS can
design, coordinate, and provide your company with
the best Disaster Recovery Plan. Giving you the
best opportunity to survive DISASTER! |
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Extended Computer Services
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