Source - London Chamber of Commerce – May 2003

· 90% of businesses that lose data from a disaster are forced to shut within two years of disaster.

· 80% of businesses without a well structured recovery plan are forced to shut within 12 months of a flood or fire.

· 43% of companies experiencing disasters never recover.

· 50% of companies experiencing a computer outrage will be forced to shut within 5 years.

· Companies experiencing a computer outrage lasting longer than 10 days will never recover its full financial capacity.

· Less than 50% of all organisations in the UK have a business continuity plan.

· 43% of companies who have a business continuity plan do not test it annually.

· 80% of companies have not developed crisis management to provide IT coverage to support business continuity to keep the business functioning.

· 25% of financial institutions have no business continuity plan.
 

Source – CPR/Eagle Rock Alliance and CPM


· 49% of SMEs fail to assess their vulnerability to data loss.

· 93% of businesses that suffer data loss for more than 10 days file for

bankruptcy within 1 year, 50% immediately.

Source - British Chamber of Commerce ICT Report

Of those companies participating in the 2001 Cost of Downtime Survey by CPR/Eagle Rock Alliance and CPM:

· 46% said each hour of down time would cost their companies up to $50k

· 28%: $51k – $250K

· 18%: $251k - $1million

· 8%: $1million+

At what point is the survival of your company at risk?

· 40% said 72 hours

· 21% said 48 hours

· 15% said 24 hours

· 8% said 8 hours

· 9% said 4 hours

· 3% said 1 hour 4% within the hour


Source – Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner, Inc.

Worldwide storage services revenue is expected to rise from $26 billion in 2002 to $41 billion in 2005.


Source - John Horo – Networks Storage Manager: hp
The average data centre client has 7.5TB of online storage. That’s equivalent to a stack of 3.5” diskettes over 11 miles high (Mount Everest is only 5.5 miles high). By 2006 the average stack will reach 39 miles high.

Source – ICSA Labs/TruSecure, 2002)

Viruses – 10% of PCs are infected with viruses each month. Of these, 37% of computer virus infections result in data loss.
 

Source – Garter Analyst M. Margevicius, Aug 2001

Disk Crashes - Up to 20% of PCs suffer hardware failure in the first three years of use.
 

Source – Safeware, The Insurance Agency Inc. 2001

Laptop Loss – Of the 2.3 million insurance claims for computer loss in 2001, 25% were theft related; notebook theft has increased by 53% since 2000.


Source - IDC analyst Fred Broussard, July 2002

More than 109,000TBs of unique enterprise PC data are not being regularly backed up.
 

Source – IDC analyst Cynthia Doyle, April 2002

As much as 60% of corporate data resides unprotected on PC desktops and laptops.
 

Source - ICSA Labs, 2002

Viruses: Survey finds PCs infected at the rate of 10% each month.
 

Source - Gartner analyst Brain Gammage, Oct 2002
By 2006 one in every three PCs shipped will be mobile.

Source – Safeware, The Insurance Agency
Up to 20% of laptops suffer hardware failure in the first 3 years of use

Source – Gartner Analyst M. Margevicius Aug 2001
Of the 4.1 million insurance claims for computer loss in 2002, 15% were
theft related; which equals approximately 620,000 claims.
Total cost of ownership for PCs – the cost of keeping a single PC
operational – has risen to an industry average of between $4,000 and
 

Source – Gartner Analyst M. Margevicius Oct 2002
$11,000 per year.

 

Source – Pepperdine University Study
6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year.



Source – Strategic Research Corporation 2002
Enterprise storage needs will increase by a factor of seven over the next three years.


Source – John T. McArthur – IDC, 2003
The amount of new storage capacity installed each year is increasing
almost 80% annually. At the same time, the total number of IT workers is
increasing by approximately 5% per year.
 

Source - Gartner quoted in Network Magazine Oct 2002
An enterprise spends an average of three dollars managing storage for every one dollar spent on storage hardware.

Source – IDC quoted in Storage Magazine Oct 2002
Email volume is growing at 29% per year


Source – Giga Information Group Sept 2002

Organisations typically use only 30-60% of their storage capacity.


Source – Gartner 2002

In enterprise environments, notebook computers now make up 35% of all PCs.