In the moment of despair, I am trying to control my emotions, how is my phone not connecting to my computer? This was supposed to be a small security update. The update was not even very large. Why was I trying to do this before a meeting?
The stages of grief begin to hit me like a tsunami before I know what is happening:
Denial: “This can’t be happening to me, I am in IT for crying out loud!”
Anger: “Stupid phone, how dare you not sync to the Cloud!”
Bargaining: “C’mon, if you just boot back up, I promise I will keep you at 50% charge or greater forever...”
Depression: “I can’t get this signed anymore. I have no idea where the meeting is without my calendar. I’m a failure and will have to move back in with my Mom.”
Acceptance: “I only lost the last day’s data. At least at Mom’s, I don’t have to do laundry.”
Take this same situation and substitute “Phone” with “Primary Location.” This is quickly escalating into a business decision.
How much and how long am I able to operate without this data?
- 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster, filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.
- 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately.
- 94% of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss do not survive – 43% never reopen and 51% close within two years.
- 7 out of 10 small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.
This is why I need insurance!
I have never seen or heard of a person being upset for having car insurance after an accident. Data backups are insurance, plain and simple. The moment my file is starting to restore is the moment I am not moving back in with my Mom.
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Moral of the story is to achieve peace-of-mind by backing up your data in the Cloud.
Dasan Castrapel
Senior Account Executive, ScaleMatrix
