Disaster Recovery For Your Small Business

Despite the potentially devastating effects of data loss, this Small Business Computing article suggests that many small businesses don't adequately protect themselves with a disaster recovery plan. According to a three-year-old study from Price Waterhouse Coopers, 70 percent of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.

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D"Many large enterprises still use remote hot recovery sites provided by companies such as SunGard, with duplicate systems and data so they can continue computing operations in the event of a disaster. But such outsourced services remain prohibitively expensive for small businesses and even some big corporations are looking for less costly alternatives.

"At the other end of the spectrum, tape-based backup systems with offsite storage offer a simple and relatively inexpensive solution for SMBs, but they make recovery times unacceptably slow for most firms."

Read the Full Disaster Recovery For Your Small Business Story at Small Business Computing