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Fact: The average business
has $60,000 worth of computer data and many of them have little
or no protection at all.
Fact: It does not take a
dramatic natural disaster to make you lose your data.
Every day viruses, worms, hard drive crashes, software failures,
and theft turn businesses upside down in an effort to recover
information and resume operations.
Fact: The average PC data
loss can cost more than $2,000 when you consider technical
support for recovery, lost productivity, and lost data.
Cost Benefit Analysis of In-House Backups vs.
secure, offsite and automatic ISProfessionals
service
Copying data to CDs/DVDs or tapes that are left
on premises only insures that some data will be
available for restore if the backup media is
accessible after a data loss event – and if this
data is taken offsite it is usually unencrypted,
making it available for viewing and use by virtually
anyone that might come into contact with it. Fires
usually destroy backup media that are left onsite,
and in many cases the affected premises are
off-limits to everyone for many days after a fire or
other disaster. Proper backups are done
automatically, at non-peak business hours, are
securely encrypted, are available for restore at any
time, and are taken offsite – every night.
Costs for proper in-house backup include:
- Employee time - backing up: (daily) ½ - 1 hour
- Backup Media: $2 - $200 – depending on format
- Hardware: $200 to $8000 depending on format
- Employee time - verifying backups: (weekly) 1 hour
- Employee time – swapping media: (daily) .25 hours+
Assuming that the employee responsible for the backups,
removal of media, verifications and restore processes is on a
salary of at least $30,000 per year, and using the minimum time
dedications outlined above, the cost of properly backing up an
SMBs data is about $71.25 per week, $285 per month, and $3420
per year – not including hardware. If you
factor in the cost of true manual ‘rotation’ of backup copies to
a secure offsite location using a courier service ($300 per
month+) and the aggregate costs associated with restoring data
from tapes or the internal costs of managing a single total
loss/restore event, the costs of in-house backup can skyrocket
to well over double the previous estimate.
Compare this to the ISProfessionals service, operating
automatically at non-peak hours, and without imposing on your
existing staff or adding hardware or media resources of any
type. Typical average charges for ISProfessionals service might
be $50-$75 per month, resulting in a minimum cost
savings of between $2520 and $2820 per year.
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