You have invested a lot of TIME, MONEY, and ENERGY to develop your business data. Whether it's sales records, client lists, proposals, receivables, presentation data, formulas, accounting records or tax information, this data is the heart of your business. Data loss is NOT ACCEPTABLE. Studies have shown:

• 1-MB of data is worth approximately $3,900. *1
• Re-building just 20MB of loss data could cost more than $100,000 and nearly three weeks to re-build. *2
• Retrieval of data from a CRASH HARD DRIVE can cost a fortune and there is NO GUARANTEE of success! *1

• Your business data goes hand-in-hand with your business operations. The loss of such data, or even its temporary inaccessibility, may threaten your hard-earned competitive position in the market place.
• Companies without proactive backup and recovery policies are likely to be OUT OF BUSINESS within a short period of time after experiencing a major disaster.*3
• Loss of business data may ruin your company's reputation, or may
  lead to Expensive Litigation.
    - Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 – (HIPAA)
    - The Financial Modernization Act of 1999 - Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
    - Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002  
   
• Most importantly, it interrupts your business continuity.

Conventional backup methods (Tape, DVD's, CD's USB Drives, External/Removable Hard Drives etc.)

• High failure rates during restoration.
• Critical backup failures will not be detected until restoration is called for.
• Slow read/write speed.
• High cost of maintenance.
• Data is NOT ENCRYPTED, any one with access to backup media can read the data.
• Fixed capacity per unit makes backup job less flexible.
• Prone to damages, being stolen or misplaced.

*Source: 1. David M Smith, PhD - The importance of investing in that ounce of prevention. 
                    The Cost of Loss Data 2003.
                2. A National Computer Security Association (now Trusecure Corporation) survey reported that for an
                    average engineering department it would cost $100,000 to rebuild 20 megabytes of data.
                3. Study by the National Archives and Records Administration.