A Dow Jones corporate research firm, Data Quest, recently completed a study showing that purchasing hardware is only 20% of the real cost, whereas, the remaining 80% is service, repair, upgrades and administration.

PacifiComspecializes in helping reduce your total cost of ownership by offering proactive solutions to help prevent data loss, system downtime, and lost productivity.

A Tape Backup will Protect Your Data
Eventually, every computer hard disk will fail, and any data stored on it could be lost.  For most people the data is worth much more that the computer hardware.  Imagine how much it would cost your business to recreate from scratch all of the data stored in your computer systems. 

Studies have shown that 80% of small businesses that suffer a total loss of computer data end up going out of business within two years.  A hard disk failure is not the only way this can happen.  Data can be lost in fires, floods, earthquakes, and theft. Fortunately, there is one effective way to protect against all of these disasters, by making regular backups. 

Tape backups are an effective, economical solution to this risk.  If you are not already making regular tape backups, you should be.  This is one of the most critical elements of an effective disaster plan.

Get Power Protection for Your Hardware
 Power problems are the single largest cause of computer data loss and hardware damage.  Two major power outages hit the West this summer affecting 2.7 million people in nine states.  According to an IBM study, in a typical month your computer will be affected by approximately 120 power problems.  The five major types of power events are blackouts, surges, spikes, line noise and sags. A properly functioning Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) will:

	Provide clean, continuous power to your computer.
	Protect your data, computer, peripherals and Internet connections
	Allow you to save your important files in the event of a power problem.
	Allow you to continue working through brief power outages.
	Provide system auto-shutdown and software to enable you to save valuable data.

It Can Take Four Days to Recover from a Virus
Computer viruses cost companies billions of dollars each year.  These billions reflect only the direct expense of labor for cleanup of infected systems.  The indirect expense of lost productivity is higher still.  A study by Dataquest found it takes an average of four days for companies to recover from a virus attack, with 25% of companies experiencing reinfection within 30 days.  

According to PCWeek:
	The average cost per disaster in 1997 was $8,366
	The average total system downtime was 40 minutes
	The average time to recover from infection was 44 hours

By installing centrally managed anti-virus software, the latest virus detection and repair solutions are automatically downloaded and distributed to all of your networked systems.  This eliminates the cost of time of protecting each machine individually.

In addition, our virus protection solutions provide real-time protection on all systems- including servers.  Whenever, a file or electronic mail is created, opened, copied or altered, it is checked for infection and automatically cleaned or deleted.