Data loss and downtime costs enterprises $1.7 trillion

This is a bit of an infomercial for EMC so read with caution.  From Help Net Security:

Data loss and downtime costs enterprises $1.7 trillion

Business trends, such as big data, mobile and hybrid cloud create new challenges for data protection:

• 51% of businesses lack a disaster recovery plan for any of these environments and just 6% have a plan for all three
• In fact, 62% rated big data, mobile and hybrid cloud as 'difficult' to protect
• With 30% of all primary data located in some form of cloud storage, this could result in substantial loss.