New product plans. Automobile engineering designs. Users today store data on their desktops and networks that is mission-critical to their organizations and their personal lives. Loss of mission-critical data, by definition, causes major business processes to stop. This, in the worst instance, can cause a company to go bankrupt.
System administrators can lose their jobs.
Companies can lose faithful customers who lose trust as a result of the company's failure to deliver as promised. The financial, legal and productivity ramifications associated with the loss of critical data puts companies and individuals at great risk. Backup technology and practices have failed to adequately protect data. Most computer users rely on backups and redundant storage technologies as their safety net in the event of data loss. For many users, these backups and storage strategies work as planned.