EMC | EU | European disaster recovery survey 2011 (PDF)
From the press release:
“74% of organisations are not very confident that they can fully recover after a disaster, according to a new survey of 1,750 European companies; 54% surveyed have lost data and/or suffered systems downtime in the last year; 61% report hardware failure as the primary cause of data loss and downtime; natural disasters and employee sabotage being much less likely culprits; 43% of organisations cite loss of employee productivity as the single biggest economic impact; 28% point to lost revenue as a result of a disaster; 40% of organisations still use tape for recovery and 80% of these organisations want to replace tape all together, highlighting the need for next generation backup and recovery”
(Source: automatiseringgids.nl)