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GET THE FACTS! According to Contingency Planning Research & Strategic Research Corporation: 43% of U.S. companies experiencing disasters never re-open, and 29% close within 2 years. 43% of lost or stolen data is valued at $5 million. Most companies value 100MB of data at more than $1million. The loss of revenue for each hour of downtime varies from industry to industry.

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PC/LAPTOPS Between 40-80% of business critical data resides on the hard drives of laptops & desktops, 60-70% of laptops & desktops are never backed up. These days 50% of computers sold to businesses are laptops, 10% of laptops are stolen - annually, 15% of all laptops will suffer some form of hardware damage in a given year, 6% of all PCs will suffer a 'data loss incident' in a given year. The average 'incident' can cost a company US $2,557. Average time to recover lost data around 6 hours (if a person is employed/available to do it). Some small firms don't have servers, anyway! In these cases, 100% of Business Critical data is on PCs.

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WHAT SHOULD I BACKUP? Think data: data that is proprietary to you and/or your company and cannot be replaced. E-Mail, Databases (SQL, Exchange, etc), Customer Records, Invoices & other Financial Data, Presentations, Collateral, Contracts, Pictures, Drawings, Your Bookmarks, Your Desktop, Your Appointments, Contacts, To Do list in Outlook, Files you've synchronized from your cell phone to your PC, Your 'My Documents' folder.

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WHAT NEED I NOT BACKUP Anything that's easily replaceable! Installed software, typically your Operating system and applications - are replaceable! They're available on a CD for download, and with the license keys, you can get them up and running quickly. So you don't spend time, effort & money backing this up.