• 90% of businesses that lose data from a disaster are forced to shut within 2 years of the disaster |
· 34% of companies fail to test their backups |
· 77% of companies that test tape backups found they fail in one form or another |
· 60% of companies that lose data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster |
· 93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days of more, due to a disaster, filed for
bankruptcy within one year of the disaster |
· A single incident of data loss costs business an average of £6,000 (price waterhouse coopers
survey) |
| • 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 outage will be forced to shut within five years |
| • Companies experiencing a computer outage 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 to ensure that it works |
| • 80% of companies have not developed crisis management to provide IT coverage to support business continuity to keep the business functioning effectively |
| • 25% of financial institutions have no business continuity plan |
| • 19% of financial institutions who have business continuity plans have not tested them in the last five years |
| • 40% of companies that have crisis management plans do not have a team dedicated to disaster recovery |
| • 58% of UK organisations were disrupted by September 11th with one in eight severely affected |
