Backup and Disaster Recovery

With Desert IT Solutions as your partner for backup and disaster recovery, you will be able to:
  • Reduce any stress you may have about impending disasters – management and maintenance for all the backup requirements you have.

  • Modernize your business – upgrade to a system with backup that’s continual and automatic.

  • Emerge from disasters unharmed – confident that your critical customer and business data is secure.

  • Rely on rapid system recovery – if the unthinkable happens and you’re the victim of disaster, your business operations will be quickly restored.

  • Protect your entire business – we safeguard your entire system, including data and email, for a complete recovery, no matter what!


    • Disaster Recover Statistics:

    Cited Statistics

    - 93% of companies that lose their data center for 10 days or more file 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.

    (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)

    - 30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. The remaining 70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine)

    - Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. (Mozy Online Backup)

    - Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days of a data disaster are not likely to survive. (Strategic Research Institute)

    - Recovering a failed hard drive may cost thousands and success is not guaranteed


    A national Harris Interactive survey of 597 computer users reveals:

    • - Nearly three out of five personal computer users have lost an electronic file they thought they had sufficiently stored

    • - One in four users frequently back up digital files, even when 85 percent of computer users say they are very concerned about losing important digital data.

    • - 82 percent keep a hard copy of important documents they've also saved electronically

    • -Thirty-seven percent of the survey's respondents admitted to backing up their files less than once per month

    • - Nine percent admitted they have never backed up their files

    • - More than 22 percent said backing up information is on their to-do list, but they seldom do it


    Miscellaneous stats about computer data loss:

      - 2,000 laptops are stolen or lost every day

    • - 32% of data loss is caused by human error

    • - 31% of PC users have lost all of their PC files to events beyond their control

    • - 25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive

    • - 44% of data loss caused by mechanical failures

    • - 15% or more of laptops suffer hard drive failures

    • - 1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime

    • - The overall average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100% - all drives eventually fail