# Just How Safe is Your Data? Source: https://expedient.com/knowledgebase/blog/2012-06-25-just-how-safe-is-your-data/ [](#) # Just How Safe is Your Data? June 25, 2012 2 min Read Just how important is a reliable and continually tested [business continuity plan](https://www.expedient.com/the-data-centers/) to the success of your business. Well consider this: - 93% of companies that experience a major data loss **_go out of business_** within five years1 - Medium sized businesses (101-1000) experience an average of 140 hours of  downtime **_every year_** – with an average loss in revenue of 867,000 dollars - 43% of businesses that experience a disaster but have no business continuity plan in place **_never recover_** Right now you are probably saying to yourself, “My company is safe. We invested in a disaster recovery plan a few years back. And on top of that, we are located in a region where disasters seldom strike.” Unfortunately, this is a mistake that far too many companies make. A pre-existing business continuity plan or low occurrence of “natural” disasters has them believing that they are immune to data loss. But the facts don’t match up with the statistics: - Only 14% of businesses update their business continuity plan regularly – And an out of date plan is about as good as no plan at all. - More than 50% of system failures are due to localized power outages or IT failures – Not a large scale natural disaster #### True Business Continuity with the Expedient Safe The business continuity experts at Expedient are here to ensure that your data is truly _SAFE._ Our business continuity plan options include: - Private Virtual Colocation - Virtual Machine Replication - De-Duplicated Disk Based Backup - Traditional Tape Based Back Up - Offsite cloning - DYODR – Design Your Own Disaster Recovery   [Download Your Passport to Data Protection](http://go.expedient.com/l/12902/2012-06-18/xknq) Through our [business continuity plan services](https://www.expedient.com/services/managed-services/) and disaster recovery plan testing, it is just as if your data is being safely secured within the reinforced walls of the Expedient Safe – meaning you are protected, no matter how big or how small the disaster.   _1-_    [_U.S Bureau of Labor_](http://www.bls.gov/) #### #### #### #### [ ![Anthony Estelle](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/anthony-estelle.jpg) Anthony EstelleMarket Vice President - Baltimore, Boston, Washington D.C. ](/knowledgebase/blog/authors/anthony-estelle) [Disaster Recovery](/knowledgebase/blog/tag/disaster%20recovery) ### Related Posts [ #### The VMware Wait Tax: Why Every Quarter of Delay... Inaction on a VMware migration is widely treated as a neutral position, a de... Learn More ](/knowledgebase/blog/2026-08-04-the-vmware-wait-tax-why-every-quarter-of-delay-has-a-price-tag/)[ #### The Great Inversion What was easy is now hard. What was hard is now easy. {% include blog-key-... Learn More ](/knowledgebase/blog/2026-07-29-the-great-inversion/)[ #### Your New Cloud Strategy: Rebalancing for Cost a... {% include blog-key-takeaways.html items=page.key\_takeaways %} A few years a... Learn More ](/knowledgebase/blog/2026-07-15-your-new-cloud-strategy-rebalancing-for-cost-and-performance/) ## Subscribe to Our Blog VMware September 29th, 2026 at 1:00 PM ET ## It’s Time to Decide Your VMware Path [Join us →](https://go.expedient.com/VMWarePath) ### VMware September 29th, 2026 at 1:00 PM ET ## It’s Time to Decide Your VMware Path [Join us →](https://go.expedient.com/VMWarePath)