As our clients get control of their records, many have realized the importance of rotating their digital back-up tapes on a regular basis. With tape backups of your digital information, you'll be able to stage a recovery of your information in the event that your computer systems were compromised. Depending on the amount of data your business creates, you should be rotating your digital media on a regular basis. Our Firelock fireproof vault provides the ideal conditions for storing these digital media tapes when they aren't in your computer. Consider these startling statistics on digital media as reported by the University of North Carolina's Information Technology Service that made our clients think twice about how they were backing up their computer systems:

• 60% of all data is held on PC Desktops and laptops
• A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds
• 1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime.
• 31% of PC users have lost all of their PC files to events beyond their control.
• 32% of data loss is caused by human error.
• 25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive.
• 44% of data loss is caused by mechanical failures.
• 40% of Small and Medium sized businesses don't back-up their data at all.