In the end, no company and no user is immune from these problems. The IT infrastructures of most enterprises are designed to manage and protect corporate server systems. Many of these PCs are laptops, and are subject to an annual theft rate of 10 percent and an annual hard drive failure rate of 15 percent. Add virus attacks, and user errors and the situation seem hopeless. Users download and corrupt applications.
New software needs to be added.
And in the end, every system needs to be replaced. IT administrators and Help-Desk personnel, already pressured by the demands of distributed computing, can t keep up with the user problems, repairs, data recovery and other PC needs of their users. And needed services such as migrating users from obsolete to new PCs are inefficient. Ontrack Data International, Inc.