Three strategies to keep
your business running
Small and midsize businesses face big-time challenges
Cyber threats
Disasters
Malicious activities and cyber-attacks are a growing threat.
Natural or manmade
disasters can come out
of nowhere.
Small and midsize
businesses suffer
data breaches more
often than larger
companies.1
68%
31%
System
downtime
of midsize businesses
say preventing data
loss is an IT priority.6
1980
of SMBs experienced
a data breach in the
last 12 months.2
Without the right
strategies, any of
these threats could
bring your business
to a halt.
2X
2014
The number of natural
disasters has more than
doubled since 1980.7
Human errors and
technical issues
threaten application
availability.
For 83% of companies,
3 hours
is the downtime
tolerance for highpriority applications.3
Mobile threats
50K
Opening your network to mobile workers, customers, and
devices creates new risks to your data and applications.
250K
1 hr
2 hr
3 hr
Downtime results in an
average loss of
of midsize firms have employees
who access business applications
on personal devices.5
31%
75%
150K
$75,000/hr.4
Keep your business running with three IT best practices
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Build a resilient
infrastructure.
• Deploy modern servers with
resilience designed in.
• Ensure contingency plans are in place
for hardware and software failures.
• Leverage professional support
services for proactive
problem avoidance.
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Use modern
network technologies
for pervasive security.
• Establish a comprehensive
data security strategy.
• Put intrusion prevention systems
in place.
• Establish consistent security policies
across wired and wireless networks.
Implement a backup
and disaster
recovery strategy.
• Build a comprehensive business continuity plan.
• Leverage reliable long-term data storage technologies.
• Keep your data accessible with solutions for fast recovery.
Get started today with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Just Right IT solutions.
1. Data availability | Keep your applications up and running.
HPE helps you build a resilient infrastructure with
modern servers and networking with 4x faster workload
performance6 and 60% lower latency.8
2. Data security | Protect your networks and systems.
Secure your network by applying a multilayer network security
strategy that combines hardware, software, and services to create a
comprehensive solution designed to protect your data and
applications.
3. Data protection | Safeguard the lifeblood of your business.
HPE helps protect your data with storage that is scalable, fast,
reliable, and affordable with 23% faster backup and a guaranteed
95% reduction in backup capacity requirements.9
4. Services | Bring it all together
HPE makes it easy to get maximum results from your IT
investments with the right coverage from HPE Support Services
and an innovative strategy from HPE Financial Services.
Your data is the lifeblood of your business.
Protect it with HPE Just Right IT solutions.
Learn more
Verizon. “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report.” May 2013.
Aberdeen Group. "Network Security for Small and Mid-Size Businesses." September 2015.
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ESG. “Five Key Considerations to Ensure Data Recovery: A Guide for Small and Midsized Organizations.” June 2015.
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IDC study referenced in IDC white paper, “Business Risk: Effective Technology Protecting Your Business,” a white paper sponsored by HPE.
August 2014.
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AMI-Partners. “Protecting Technology Infrastructure” white paper. January 2014.
6
Intel internal measurements. June 2014.
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Munich RE, NATCatSERVICE, January 2015, citing worldwide statistics.
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64 and 1,518 byte packet-size comparison:
cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switches/miercom_report_cisco_catalyst_4500e_se.pdf.
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As compared to a fully hydrated backup. Subject to customer qualification and compliance with the Get Protected Guarantee Terms and
Conditions, which will be provided to you by your HPE sales or channel partner representative. Learn more at hpe.com/storage/getprotected.
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