How much is your data worth?

With offsite data backup, your electronic assets are protected
against fire, theft, flooding, tornado and hurricane damage.

Businesses often forget about an important insurance policy—Data Backups. Most companies that do have a tape backup policy are not really sure if they are getting accurate backups. If you have to ask yourself when the last time you verified that your tape actually has restorable data then you most likely are not getting complete backups.

A more important question is how much is your data worth? How much would it cost to recreate your data if possible at all? Hundreds or even thousands of man-hours? Studies have shown that nearly half the companies that lose their data in a disaster never reopen. Ninety percent of these data losses occur because of power failures, water leaks, loose cables, user mistakes, and other hardware, software, and human errors.