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"No matter what the reason, if a company were to be without
their computer systems for more than 10 days, it is likely there would be a
significant impact on their financial status, and 50% of them will be bankrupt
from their fields within 5 years."(Written by Jon Toigo)
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The average value of 100 megabytes of data is $1 million,
regardless of the business field.
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Hourly value of lost data
Business type Value
Retail $6.45
mil Credit card sales auth $2.6 million
Home shopping channel $113,750
Catalog sales center $90,000
Airline reservation center $89,500
Mobile service use $41,000
Package shipping service $28,250
Online network connection $25,250
ATM $14,500
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The Cost of Rebuilding 20 MB of Data
Dept. Time Cost
Sales/Mktg 19 days $17,000
Accounting 21 days $19,000
Engineering 42 days $98,000
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