Infrascale

Research from Infrascale, a cloud-based data protection company providing industry-leading backup and disaster recovery solutions, indicates that the vast majority of small and medium businesses (SMBs) both expect the unexpected and feel that they’re ready for it – though they may not be. Ninety-two percent of SMB executives said they believe their businesses are prepared to recover from a disaster. However, as previously reported, more than a fifth of SMB leaders said they don’t have a data backup or disaster recovery solution in place.

Downtime is a major challenge for small and medium businesses (SMBs) today. The IT systems of nearly a quarter of SMBs have gone offline in the past year, according to new research from Infrascale, a cloud-based data protection company providing industry-leading backup and disaster recovery solutions. SMBs said the downtime creates business disruption and decreases employee productivity. More than a third (37%) of SMBs in the survey group said they have lost customers and 17% have lost revenue due to downtime.

New research from Infrascale, a cloud-based data protection company providing industry-leading backup and disaster recovery solutions, reports that ransomware attacks are not at all unusual in the small and medium business (SMB) community, as 46% of these businesses have been victims. And 73% of those SMBs that have been the targets of ransomware attacks actually have paid a ransom.