Data disasters
What is your cost of a data disaster?
It rarely shows up as one number. It arrives as a set of losses you did not budget for.
Where the money goes
- Lost receivablesInvoices and payment records that were only on the failed system.
- Lost ordersOpen work that cannot be identified, produced or billed.
- Lost productivityStaff idle while systems are rebuilt, then re-entering what was lost.
- Lost opportunitiesQuotes, bids and follow-ups that quietly never happen.
- Lost product informationSpecifications, drawings and history that took years to build.
And the one that does not appear on a balance sheet: sleepless nights worrying about whether the backups actually work.
The published figures
According to the U.S. Department of Labor — Bureau of Labor Statistics:
40%of businesses that experience a disaster never reopen
25%of the remainder close within the following two years
Will this be you?
Do you want to SimpliVise your data backup?
What changes on the day you stop managing it yourself.
- No more tapesNo rotation, no offsite rotation drive, no mystery cartridge.
- No client involvementInstall once; monitoring and correction are ours.
- Daily and hourly backupsThe window of loss is measured in hours, not days.
- Daily monitoring of backupsEvery job is checked, including whether the connection was alive.
- Corrective actionA failed job is a task on our side.
- Regular reporting of activityA written record you can hand to an auditor or insurer.
- Monitoring the internet connectionA silent link is a silent backup failure.
- Test restoresRecovery is proven before the emergency.
- Offsite copyHeld in a data center, separate from your building.
- Peace of mindThe part you notice most.
What actually takes systems down
Hardware failure and human error account for most outages — the two events a monitored backup is built to survive.
Breakdown as published in Simplivise's original "why data disasters happen" chart.
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