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NCDTech Statistics
- Losses to software companies due to piracy amounted to just under six billion dollars worldwide in 2001, according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a software trade group.
- According to the SIIA, using pirated software is risky for users. Aside from the legal consequences of using pirated software, your organization forfeits some practical benefits as well.
- Losses to software companies due to piracy amounted to just under six billion dollars worldwide in 2001, according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a software trade group. – Business Services Industry
- Although software management can be complex, resource consuming, and frustrating, the software purchaser is responsible for complying with the software license agreement. – bNet
- There are many advantages to outsourcing IT that businesses should consider. There is clearly a cost saving in terms of salaries and pensions, as having in-house staff is expensive. – sci-tech-today.com
- A survey published in Computer Weekly in May found that the average salary for an IT professional is $54,750. But if a company engages an external IT support provider, they can secure a comprehensive service at a fraction of that sum. – sci-tech-today.com
- Managed Services spending is predicted to grow with a 7% CAGR though 2011. – Research and Markets
- 40% of companies that are shut down for 3 days fail within 3 years of the shutdown. – Contingency Planning and Management Magazine
- 20% of companies have never tested their business continuity plans. Those companies that do test have a 50% failure rate. – Stratus Technologies
- Downtime costs accelerate exponentially as the volume of work overwhelms manual processes—if you can conduct business manually at all. – Iron Mountain
- 51% of business reported a “virus disaster” in the past 12 months. – securitystates.com
- It takes 19 days and costs $17,000 to retype 20 megabyes of sales data.
- The same volume of accounting data takes 21 days and costs $19,000.
- 60% of companies that lose their data close within 6 months of the disaster.
- 40-50% of all backups are not fully recoverable and up to 60% of all backups fail in general.
- At peak periods, 1 in every 12 emails is infected with a worm or virus. – Message Labs
- Costs to business from virus infections more than doubled over a 2 year period—exceeding $55 billion dollars. – Trend Micro
- A well-designed worm can spread worldwide in less than 10 minutes. – UC Berkeley
- At the peak of an infection frenzy more than 2,000 servers are infected every minute. – CAIDA
- Globally, 64% of companies were hit by at least one virus in the past 12 months. – Information Week
- 51% of business reported a “virus disaster” in the past 12 months. – SecurityStates.com
- 56% of companies believe that hosted services are a service solution rather than a technology solution. – utilitycomputing.itworld.com
- Application hosting is growing at a 22% annual rate. – AMR Research
- Improving the IT infrastructure life-cycle cost structures means improving the four major categories of cost: the cost to acquire, maintain, retire, and finance.
- There's less up-front cost from leasing. There are fewer or no staffing requirements. There are certain balance sheet advantages, and it's easier to get a loan for leasing than for purchase.
- The benefits of leasing include lower start up costs, fewer depreciation issues, fewer maintenance costs, full IT skill set access, controlled growth, fewer personnel costs and the ability to maintain focus on your primary business.
- Systems do not have a 'life cycle.' They may go on forever if kept viable with change. – Bryce’s Law
- Asset tracking reduces loss of equipment and size of equipment inventory.
- Asset tracking accelerates reaction time for an event needing a quick response.
- Even though many companies have implemented IT asset tracking, less than 35% have successfully implemented the type of proactive change management required to lower Total Cost of Ownership. – Gartner Group
- Companies that fail to integrate software usage and inventory data to manage their software assets will over-buy licenses for 60% of their portfolio and will be out of compliance on 30%. – Gartner Group
- Mapping the complex and increasingly dynamic relationships between applications and the relevant infrastructure components is a difficult, yet crucial task. Successfully automated execution of this task will yield better execution of many development and operational processes. – Meta Group
- 91% of our client's issues are resolved the same day that they call us.
- A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds.
- 2,00 laptops are stolen or lost every day. With NCDTech utilities you'll know if a stolen computer ever connects to the internet anywhere in the world. If it does, we can pinpoint it's location.
- 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.
- 1 in 5 computers suffers a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime.
- Civil penalties for software piracy may include up to $100,000 in statutory damages per infringement.
- Federal penalties for software piracy include fines up to $250,000 as well as prison terms up to 5 years.
