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To mitigate the economic risk of downtime, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are seeking cost-effective business continuity solutions that are both feature rich and complexity free. According to IDC's 2015 SMB Business Continuity Study, 81% of SMBs using business continuity solutions are considering improvements to their current strategy. Legacy approaches are unable to meet today's SMB requirements, and a full 35% of SMBs do not have a business continuity solution in place at all today. Thus, 72% of SMBs worldwide expect to outlay additional investments in business continuity in the next 12–24 months.

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