Every year, unintended downtime costs more than $950 billion, while data loss accounts for over $750 billion. Hardware failure tops the list at 53 percent, followed by power loss (39 percent), software failure (38 percent), data corruption (29 percent) and user error (26 percent) EMC found that 87 percent of businesses are behind the curve for data protection, and 71 percent arent completely confident that their data could be restored after a loss. Using three or more vendors was worse than using none at all, with data loss more than doubling to 3.54 terabytes.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/news/less-emc-study-finds-data-protection-better-one-vendor/