Thanks for your response.

perhaps this is another discussion all together, but I too have seen stat number 1 quoted all over the place, and I’ve used it myself. When I tried to find the original source, I couldn’t, basically everyone was quoting each other it seemed. I did find some stuff saying that that stat might not be credible. I still have it in my marketing material, but I’m considering removing it because I haven’t been able to confirm the source directly from the National Archives & Records Administration, and I want to make sure I’ve checked my facts. If anyone has a link to this particular stat, please post it! I think being able to reference the original URL definately adds some punch to the stats.

Thanks also for the other stats, those are great!

Dave Dempsey
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Thanks for your commeents.

These are stats included in a paid Gartner publication by Dave Russell. 2007. “Recovery will move to disk-based, manager of managers approach by 2011″ Gartner Group. http://www.gartner.com.

In addition, here are more stats you can use:
1. 93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster, and 50% filed for bankruptcy immediately. (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington.)
2. 20% of small to medium businesses will suffer a major disaster causing loss of critical data every 5 years. (Source: Richmond House Group)
3. This year, 40% of small to medium businesses that manage their own network and use the Internet for more than e-mail will have their network accessed by a hacker, and more than 50% won’t even know they were attacked. (Source: Gartner Group)
4. About 70% of business people have experienced (or will experience) data loss due to accidental deletion, disk or system failure, viruses, fire or some other disaster (Source: Carbonite, an online backup service)
5. The first reaction of employees who lose their data is to try to recover the lost data themselves by using recovery software or either restarting or unplugging their computer — steps that can make later data recovery impossible. (Source: 2005 global survey by Minneapolis-based Ontrack Data Recovery)

That is a great statistic from Gartner. Do you have access to a link or something for the original source? I would love to reference this statistic in my next DR presentation.

Thanks,

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