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About 40% of small- and medium-sized businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees) do not have any plan to protect them from data loss (IDC)
34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found failures (Boston Computing Network) Companies that cannot resume operations within 10 days of a disaster are not likely to survive (Strategic Research Institute) According to Home Office Computing Magazine, 70% of all businesses that have a major fire will go out of business within five years Why allow your business to become a statistic? With affordable and reliable remote data backup, the smart choice is to safeguard your business now. 
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Types of Data Loss
Permanent data loss is a scary thought. You need to protect your business, and the best way to do that is to backup to a secure remote location. The ways in which data loss can occur are numerous:- Human error Have you ever accidentally deleted a file? 32% of data loss is due to user error (Gartner Group). How about a disgruntled employee who seeks to hurt your business by maliciously deleting files? Data Safe Zone provides protection from the accidental mistakes we all make, as well as from deliberate file deletion.
- Theft Thieves, hackers, and vandals all pose a colossal risk to the continued success of your business.
- Natural disasters earthquakes, fire, flood, lightning
the list goes on and on. Backing up all of your data in a secure offsite location will put your mind at ease.
- Worms, viruses, & software error file corruption has the potential to not only be costly to your business, but deadly. Protect your files before this happens.
- Hard drive failure & power surges unfortunately, many devices are susceptible to failure, and surge protectors do not always work. 100% of hard drives will eventually fail. When your hard drive fails you won't need to worry about losing your most important data if you are in the Data Safe Zone.
- Backup media deterioration and failure tape drive backups are a very common method of backup. However, human mishandling and environmental factors leave your business open to failure. Furthermore, according to U.S. Data Trust, tape backup is often unreliable, failing to recover data up to 50% of the time.