Disaster strikes in many forms. Businesses that depend heavily on computer data are especially vulnerable. A recent study suggests that it takes 19 days and cost in excess of $20,000 to reenter just 20 megabytes worth of sales and marketing data. Retrieving accounting records is even worse; they require over 21 days of work and cost over $23,000 to retype.

Thousands of businesses lose millions of dollars worth of data to disasters like fires, power outages, theft, equipment failure, and even a simple operator mistake. Studies show that nearly half the companies that lose their data in a disaster never reopen. 90% percent of these data losses occur because of power failures, leaks, loose cables, user mistakes, and other hardware, software, and human errors.