Here is a very good article by Samuel Greengard in 
“Organizations of all sizes are struggling to keep up with a growing need for sophisticated disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) systems. However, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) face additional challenges—particularly relating to system costs and possessing the IT expertise to manage disaster preparedness.
However, Symantec’s 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, based on responses from more than 2,000 SMB IT decision-makers, indicates that these firms are doing a relatively good job of moving forward with DR and BC plans. Increasingly, “These companies are adopting strategic technologies,” notes Monica Girolami, director of the SMB Product Marketing Group at Symantec…” Read more…
93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. 
Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive. 
6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. Given the number of PCs used in US businesses in 1998, that translates to approximately 4.6 million data loss episodes. At a conservative estimate, data loss cost US businesses $11.8 billion in 1998. 
31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond their control.
34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. 
Simple drive recovery can cost upwards of $7,500 and success is not guaranteed.
Less than 50% of all organizations have a business continuity plan, 43% of companies that do have a business continuity plan do not test it annually, 80% of companies have not developed any crisis management to provide IT coverage sufficient to keep the business functionally effectively, 40% of companies that do have crisis management plans do not have a team dedicated to disaster recovery. 
30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within 5 years 
American business lost more than $7.6 billion as a result of viruses during the first six months of 1999.
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