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 In a recent global survey Kroll Ontrack asked more than 2,000 participants from 17 countries across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific to explain the cause of their most recent data loss. 40 percent of respondents believed that human error was a leading cause, even though only 27 percent said they could actually attribute a recent loss to human error. A further 29 percent identified hardware/system failure as the cause of their most recent data loss, which was reported as the cause of data loss by 56 percent of respondents in a similar survey in 2005.
Despite the reported decline in hardware/system failures, Ontrack Data Recovery engineers have seen consistent percentages in hardware failures over the past five years.
Data loss attributed to computer viruses and natural disasters remained fairly low. In the 2010 survey, computer viruses accounted for less than 7 percent of recent data loss incidents, compared to 4 percent in 2005. Similarly, natural disasters were responsible for 3 percent of incidents in 2010, versus 2 percent in 2005.
Surprisingly, while more than 90 percent of those surveyed have lost information, 18 percent ‘did not know’ how their data loss occurred.
www.ontrackdatarecovery.com
•Date: 27th July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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