QUBEX DENVER DATA RECOVERY SERVICES of COLORADO Data Loss and Downtime Costing Enterprises $1.7 Trillion a Year: Survey The EMC Global Data Protection Index (PDF) also revealed that on average, companies lost 400 percent more data over the past two years. That amounts to 2.33 TB of data, the equivalent of 24 million emails at a cost of $1.02 million per organization. A patchy disaster recovery landscape isnt helping matters either. Fifty-one percent of the organizations polled by Vanson Bourne said that when it comes to emerging workloads -- hybrid cloud, big data and mobile, essentially -- they dont have a disaster recovery plan in place. Should trouble befall their storage environments, 71 percent said that they arent fully confident in their ability to recover lost data. Hardware failure (53 percent) was the primary cause of data loss and systems downtime, followed by a power loss (39 percent) and software failure (38 percent). Data corruption (29 percent) and accidental user error (26 percent) rounded out the top five reasons. The days of simple, scheduled backups are over, suggested Guy Churchward, president of EMC Core Technologies, in a statement. With 62 percent of IT decision-makers interviewed feeling challenged to protect hybrid cloud, big data and mobile, its understandable that almost all of them lack the confidence that data protection will be able to meet future business challenges. The study, EMC hopes, will prompt IT leaders to pause and reevaluate whether their current data protection solutions are in alignment with todays business requirements as well as their long term goals. There is a silver lining nestled within the surveys findings, said Smails. The number of incidents for data loss are going down, he said. But the volume of data at risk and the costs to bounce back from an incident are rising. In the past 12 months, 64 percent of the enterprises surveyed for the report experienced data loss or downtime, the latter of which affected the average business for 25 hours, or more than three working days, costing roughly $870,000 per incident. Thirty-six percent reported that they lost revenue while 34 percent said their product development operations were delayed as a result of such mishaps. emc/collateral/presentation/emc-dpi-key-findings-global.pdf
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