Disaster Statistics

• Nearly 80% of all unplanned disruptions have a human factor associated with them.  Application and Operator errors each count for 40% of unplanned disruptions.
• A study by the University of Texas, of companies that suffered a catastrophic data loss found that 43% never reopened and 51% closed within two years. Only 6% survived.  In the World Trade Center bombing, 50% of the businesses without a DR plan were out of business within 2 years.
• As of February 28, 2001, Comdisco has supported 440 disaster recoveries.  Customers called on Comdisco to help recover from a disaster event when they were unable to continue business operations at their home site or the first line of defenses could not support the business operation.
• Nearly 22% of the disasters declared were due to equipment failures or losses.  Other events such as hurricanes and power disruptions made up the other most common reasons for declaring a disaster.

•  Average downtime cost to a US business is $84,000 per hour.