Data is the lifeblood of a good business, well, data and some sort of income obviously.
We make it or receive it, and then we use it almost without thought. We mix it, slice it, dice it, consume it and bend it to our will for all manner of things from simple stock control measures to heavy statistical analysis. Data is our friend. Data is good. Right up until the point when we cant mix it, or slice it or consume it because of some problem. Then suddenly data is the enemy.
We all know someone (hopefully not ourselves), who has lived the horror story of losing a laptop, or perhaps having a PC fail on us. The facts aren't pretty either:
70% of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.
DTI/PriceWaterhouse Coopers - 2008
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