They wish they had SteekUP

March 23, 2007

I’ve stumbled upon this story about a computer technician reformatting a hard drive and accidentally wiping out an account worth $38 billion. With a B! Then he or she went on and wiped our the backup drive. Like that. When they acknowledged the blunder, they tried to recover the data from backup tapes, only to discover …they were unusable. The rest of this fascinating story is on CNN.

In short, it costed them:

- data recovery computer consultants: $71,800
- 70 people working 7/7 for weeks to recover someone’s blunder: $128,400 in overtime
- having your trigger-happy story on CNN and alloverthe internet: priceless, or almost $38 billion with a B.

Put’s the SteekUP online, remote, secured backup for FREE to 200€ in a whole new light, doesn’t it :-)

Posted by Gabriel Radic | Filed Under Blog 

Comments

2 Responses to “They wish they had SteekUP”

  1. Jennifer on March 23rd, 2007 5:16 pm

    For online backup news, information and articles, there is an excellent website:

    http://www.BackupReview.info

    This site lists more than 400 online backup companies and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.

    Any one can add their company in the directory. Just click on the “Search” button found at the top.

    Cheers,

  2. lrainy on March 25th, 2007 3:58 pm

    And Steekup.com has been added recently ! Thank you Jennifer.

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