World Backup Day is March 31st!

BACK IT UP MARCH 31ST / II Business files, photos, financial information-what if it all vanished? It's not a question of if your hard drive will fail, it's when. And if the data isn't backed up, it's gone. World Backup Day is a day for people to learn about the role of data in our lives and the importance of regular backup. REGULAR BACKUPS: Why the effort? Turns out, not many people complete regular backups of their data. In fact, less than 10% of people backup their data every day. (28%) 14% (7% Daily Weekly Monthly WHOLE LOT OF DATA: 3.6 ZB Confused about which byte is bigger ? kilobyte megabyte KB MB GB TB PB EB gigabyte A recent study forecasted that 1.8 zettabytes of data terabyte was created and 1.8 ZB replicated in 2011 alone. petabyte In two years, that number is expected to double. exabyte 1.2 ZB ZB .8 ZB zettabyte .16 ZB 2006 2009 2010 2011 2013 There's a lot of information out there in the digital universe. A majority of that data (75%) is generated by individual users. SAVE SOME DOUGH: UPLOAD Backing up your computer doesn't have to cost a lot. In fact, the cost of creating, capturing, managing and storing information is merely one-sixth the cost in 2011 that it used to be in 2005. 2005 2011 DON'T BE A FOOL. BACKUP YOUR DATA. CHECK YOUR RESTORES. WORLD WWW.WORLDBACKUPDAY.COM BACKUP DAY 2012 f WORLDBACKUPDAY B @WORLDBACKUPDAY Sources: Harris Interactive survey on behalf of Backblaze DC Digital Universe studies lemon ly Created by %24