Hello Cjs1,
I've organized a digest of links to articles, reports and statistics
related to what you listed in your question.
According to Imation?s Small Business Survey Special Report conducted
in April 2003, 30 percent of small businesses admit they have no
formal data backup and storage procedures, or do not implement their
procedures consistently.
?Fifty-five percent of small businesses rated themselves as "fair" or
"poor" in terms of having a documented disaster recovery plan, or do
not have one at all.?
?Review and evaluation of data backup and storage procedures is not a
common practice among small businesses.?
?The majority of small companies backup critical data on a daily
basis, and daily backups are more common among companies that deal
with higher volumes of data. But one in three small businesses still
wait until there is a problem before reviewing and evaluating their
backup and storage procedures.?
?Moreover, 21 percent said that they are doing a "fair" or "poor" job
of periodically removing important business data offsite ? a vital
procedure to protect businesses from physical disaster. An additional
13 percent of small businesses admitted to not removing backup files
at all ? that?s 34 percent at risk?.
Imation Small Business Survey
http://www.imation.com/en_US/main.jhtml?Id=70_01_03
Download the full report here: (20 pages)
This report provides interesting graphs, tables and pie charts.
http://www.imation.com/assets/NorthAmerica_Assets/AboutImation/PDF/IMN_SMB_SpecialReport.pdf
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?Imation market research categorized storage space available for data
backup by small business users is: 59% of users maintain less than
100GB, 22% between 101GB and 500GB and 19% more than 500GB.?
Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040519/cgw029_1.html
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?According to consultancy Access Markets International, more than 40
percent of small businesses rank automated data backup and recovery as
their primary IT need.?
ECT News Network, Inc.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/31828.html
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?A recent study by AMI-Partners found that nearly 60 percent of small
businesses with local area networks (LANs) currently use on-site data
backup and recovery systems. That leaves 40 percent of the small
business market unprotected or untapped.?
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/webmaster/article.php/3301841
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?Gartner (an industry analyst firm that covers the technology market)
estimates that less than half of all midsize businesses and only 25
percent of small businesses have disaster recovery plans in place.?
MATR
http://www.matr.net/article-11375.html
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Small Business IT Spending Trends
By SmallBusinessComputing.com Staff
November 3, 2003
?Nearly 60 percent of small businesses with LANs currently use on-site
data backup and recovery solutions. Twenty percent of the same have
deployed redundant backup power systems as part of their disaster
recovery plans.?
http://www.clickz.com/stats/markets/smallbiz/print.php/3088981
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Time is valuable
?20Mb of data typically takes 30 hours of work to replace - time not
spent selling, time wasted by staff. And the cost of a business hour
is typically £150.?
http://www.backupdirect.net/doc/BackupDirect_BusinessCase.pdf
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?A 40GB computer with 50 per cent usage can be recovered within 45
minutes, and all files and settings are recovered, including drivers,
file permission, applications, e-mails, desktop icons, screensaver
passwords and so on, the company said.?
Business Times
http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/story/0,4567,121540,00.html
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At Quick heal Data Recovery Service a normally a data recovery
normally takes 4 to 5 days to complete.
http://www.quickheal.com/datar.htm
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Data Recovery Services provided by ACR Data Recovery can take 5 days to do.
The Diagnostic Phase
?The initial step in creating an effective data recovery solution for
your unique circumstance begins with running diagnostics on your
media. This step typically takes 2 to 4 days.?
The Recovery Phase
?The second phase is that of actual data recovery and usually takes
between 1 to 3 days.?
http://www.data-recovery-information.com/
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Storage Networking Industry Association Publication
http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/spr2004/backup/Data_Protection%20_Planning_and_Assessment.pdf
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Costs
?When it comes to storage systems, small businesses tend to lean
toward the least expensive solutions. AMI's research reveals that the
number of businesses deploying storage area network (SAN) and
network-attached storage (NAS) systems increased by 36 percent. The
data indicates that price cuts in SAN/NAS systems, coupled with
enhancements to make the technologies more IP-friendly, were welcomed
by the data-intense segment of the small-business market. AMI
estimates that small businesses spent roughly $480 million on network
storage solutions over the past 12 months ? a 27 percent increase from
2002 spending.?
clickz.com
http://www.clickz.com/stats/markets/smallbiz/print.php/3088981
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From On-Site Computer Solutions:
?As with most business dealings, costs vary depending on the amount of
data needing backup. IT experts say companies can expect to spend
anywhere from 1 percent to 5 percent of their IT budgets on data
protection and recovery.?
On-Site Computer Solutions
http://www.osws.com/value/sm_business_data_recovery.asp
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Example:
"We were doing the old-fashioned tape back up solution ? we installed
tape backup systems on each of our six servers for about $1,000 each.
Each branch had to have 16 tapes available for two weeks of data
backup. Tapes cost about $30 each. And of course, a tape backup system
requires user intervention," Benson said. "We looked at the costs and
efficiency of our program and we knew we needed a better backup
resource, but cost was a key factor."
The EVault SBE service supports Microsoft Windows 2000 Server,
Advanced Server and XP Professional versions. EVault's server software
is relatively easy to install and costs $85 to run and store 5 GB of
data."
Small Business Computing
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/webmaster/article.php/3301841
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Data loss costs US businesses billions of dollars each year. Nearly 50
percent of small and medium-sized businesses that are directly
affected by a fire or natural disaster go out of business within 5
years.
http://www.jarm.net/remote_bkp.htm
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2.2 million working days could go down the drain.
?The next big computer virus attack could cost the UK's small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) £2.1bn, according to research carried
out by McAfee Security.?
?The research showed that of the 70 per cent of SMEs who said they had
received a virus, all had lost money and suffered systems downtime as
a result.?
?The average financial loss was £843 per company, equating to a total
of £2.1bn, and the average downtime was 7.2 hours - almost a full
working day.?
Small Business Resource
http://www.2-small-business.com/sme_virus.html
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?A Price Waterhouse Coopers survey calculated that a single incident
of data loss costs businesses an average of $10,000.?
Industry Tech Link
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:SuoEdL_mxu8J:www.industrytechlink.com.au/newsletter/edition/12.html+%22+data+loss+costs%22&hl=en
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"Research by the Contingency Planning Research & Strategic Research
Corporation has found that 43% of companies which suffer large-scale
data loss due to disasters never re-open and 29% close within two
years. A single incident of data loss costs businesses an average of
10K ? (PwC/DTI Information Security Breaches Survey 2002)."
http://www.channelminds.com/article.php3?id_article=617
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According to TEKgarden's CEO, Simon Read, ?83 per cent of businesses
do not have a security policy or contingency plan in place.
Furthermore, 90 per cent of businesses that lose data fail within 2
years of a disaster occurring, while 43 per cent of companies fail
immediately after a disaster occurring and are never able to
re-commence trading again."
http://sme.atalink.co.uk/articles/article-97.phtml
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Facts:
- 60% of companies that have complete data loss close down within six
months of the event.
- It's estimated that data loss costs a company an average of $790 for
every hour that data is lost.
- 31% of data loss over $500,000 is due to system failure
http://www.actrix.co.nz/business/cybersanctuary.php
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The Cost of a Data Loss Incident
"An episode of severe data loss will result in one of two outcomes:
either the data are recoverable with the assistance of a technical
support person, or the data are permanently lost and must be rekeyed.A
calculation of the average cost of each data loss incident must take
into account both possibilities."
Pepperdine University provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost of
a data loss incident. Read the full text at this direct link.:
http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/033/dataloss.html
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Gartner Research
"The importance of having a comprehensive backup solution in place is
underscored by research by Gartner that found two out of five
companies do not survive a catastrophic blow to their systems and data
(fire, flood, etc). A single incident of data loss costs businesses an
average of $10,000 (PwC/DTI Information Security Breaches Survey
2002)."
"Studies by Gartner and IDC have found that over 60% of corporate data
resides on desktops and laptops. Less that 8% of users, however,
backup on a daily basis.?
IT Security
http://www.itsecurity.com/show/att330.htm
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"Your business may be small, but the sheer amount of data that it
generates probably isn't.
E-mail, client files, scanned archives of paper documents - the volume
of digital information a business needs to store seems to multiply
fast.?
http://www.savetz.com/articles/sbc_storage.php
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A small business typically needs five to 20 gigabytes of storage each month.
Novastor: Of the Post-Dispatch
http://www.novastor.com/graphics/Databackupfirm_StlToday.pdf
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?How much data is there to back up? If there is 300 gigabytes today
and data is growing at 5 percent per month, that means there will be
480 gigabytes a year from now.?
ZDNet India
http://www.zdnetindia.com/print.html?iElementId=82867
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?Business today relies on local access to live data ? it is worth upto
£750 000 in a smaller business.
Important Data
Proposals, client data, records, financials, marketing databases,
research, designs, specifications ? have all taken years to
accumulate.
20Mb of data is typically worth £50 000 and the average data loss
costs a small firm £8000. Lose data and you?ll lose business.?
Backup Direct: Business Case
http://www.backupdirect.net/doc/BackupDirect_BusinessCase.pdf
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From the Ofcom Internet and Broadband Update dated April 2004:
- 3.99 million total broadband connections
- 2.45 million DSL connections
- 1.54 million cable modem connections
- 15% of homes have broadband
- DSL services are available to 84% of UK homes and businesses
- Cable modem services are available to 45% of UK homes and businesses
Read the full report at Ofcom at the following link:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/consumer_audience_research/telecoms/int_bband_updt/may2004/
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Broadband to dominate UK by 2005
?The number of broadband subscribers in the UK is set to overtake
narrowband punters during 2005 as more and more people hook up to
high-speed Net services.?
?According to AOL UK's own research, a third of people said they
didn't use the Net enough to warrant upgrading to broadband. Three in
ten said the cost of monthly subscribtions was too prohibitive while
14 per cent said installation costs were too high.
Despite this, the figures suggest that the number of broadband punters
will overtake dial-up users during 2005 as broadband numbers increase
and narrowband becomes a declining part of the market.?
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/aol_internet_world/
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"According to the report, 'Broadband in Europe: Competition Heats Up
At Last,' broadband penetration in the UK, Germany and Italy reached
only 13 to 15 per cent of homes at the end of 2003, only half the
level of leading countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands and
Denmark.?
Digital Producer
http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25839
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2004 Telecoms in Europe - UK and Ireland
Paul Budde Communication
December 9, 2003
?UK Internet penetration of 41%.?
?2.5 million broadband subscribers, or 18% penetration, in the UK.?
?Government wants Britain to be the most extensive and competitive
broadband market in the G7 by 2005.?
?BT committed to 1 million subscribers by mid-2003 and supports 100%
coverage by 2005.?
?52% of the British broadband subscribers are British Telecom customers.?
?47% of British broadband customers subscribe to cable companies ntl
and Telewest.?
Market Research
http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?ProductID=946732
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The following article appears in the January 2004 issue of Enterprise
Networks & Servers.
The Seven Deadly Sins Small Businesses Commit in Backup and Recovery
By Bob Cramer
Read it here:
http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/monthly/art.php/467
Search criteria
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?Data loss costs"
Broadband penetration in the UK
Small business backup market
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Costs of data loss small businesses
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Generates * data each month
I hope you find this information useful!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
Clarification of Answer by
bobbie7-ga
on
11 Jul 2004 07:38 PDT
Administration Costs.
?Administration costs are generally more substantial and also more
difficult to quantify. These include the time to change tapes daily,
the time spent monitoring and managing backup jobs, the time spent
doing restores, the time and cost of delivering tapes offsite for
disaster recovery and the time spent resolving hardware and software
issues. It is important to also put a value on the ?opportunity cost?
of having someone who serves another business function doing the
menial task of backup.?
http://www.usdatatrust.com/service/cost_comparison.asp
A typical recovery, however, takes 3-5 business days
http://www.averdrivetronics.com/
Time investment required for maintenance of PC
Maintenance task
1. Back up every day. Store your backup media in a safe manner.
Time investment
Five minutes a day, if you back up to diskettes. If you have a
high-capacity backup drive, backups can happen during off-hours.
Maintenance task
2. Run ScanDisk about once a week, to audit your hard disk file
system, and also run it immediately after any abnormal stop.
Time investment
Two or three minutes a week, plus two or three minutes per lockup.
Maintenance task
3. Run your disk defragmenter program about once per two months, to
keep your hard disk saves and retrievals moving at maximum speed.
Time investment
About five minutes per two months.
Maintenance task
4. Scan your system for viruses once a month or so, and scan any
diskette or program file that reaches you from outside, before you run
them, including Internet and bulletin board downloads. Time
investment
Three to five minutes per month, and less than a minute each to scan
foreign files or diskettes.
Maintenance task
5. Protect your PC from power surges, by buying a UPS system (once),
or an ordinary $20 surge protector once a year.
Time investment
Zero.
Maintenance task
6. Make and maintain a panic disk; a boot diskette that lets you start
up your PC independently from the hard disk.
Time investment
Five minutes to make the diskette, and a minute or so whenever new
drivers or software are installed.
http://www.icehouse.net/jim_d/time.html
?The time needed to recover data may vary greatly. If a data backup
exists and is readily accessible, the time needed to recover data may
be very short. At the other end of the spectrum, if the data are
corrupted on the hard drive, several days may be required to retrieve
the data.
If the average time needed to recover lost data is approximately six
hours, the cost of using an employee to recover lost data is
approximately $170. However, if a firm does not employ a specialist
who is able to retrieve lost data, the company must go to an outside
firm to attempt data recovery. Outside data recovery specialists can
be much more expensive than in-house sources, sometimes exceeding two
to three times the cost of an in-house specialist. Thus, taking into
account that an outside specialist must often be used in data recovery
attempts, one can conservatively estimate the minimum cost of outside
technical support to recover lost data to be around $340.?
Pepperdine University
http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/033/dataloss.html
?The majority of small companies backup critical data on a daily
basis, and daily backups are more common among companies that deal
with higher volumes of data. But one in three small businesses still
wait until there is a problem before reviewing and evaluating their
backup and storage procedures.?
http://www.imation.com/en_US/main.jhtml?Id=70_01_03
?The diagnostic test usually takes from 2 to 4 days and determines two
points: whether your media has a mechanical failure or if the basic
filing system has logical problems; and, what data is recoverable.
It encompasses:
Duplicating your media to prohibit further damage or data loss
Analyzing your media to determine what data is recoverable
Producing a complete listing of all recoverable data for you to review
The recovery phase usually takes from 1 to 3 days and involves:
Extracting data from your media
Organizing your data into a useable directory structure format?
http://www.data-recovery-software.com/services.htm
Page 10 - Storage Networking
http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/spr2004/backup/Data_Protection%20_Planning_and_Assessment.pdf
I hope this helps.
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