<p>Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint are the world's two most-used email and enterprise content management applications. But they're much like the little girl in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "When she was good, she was very good indeed. But when she was bad, she was horrid." When they go down, so does your business.</p><p>Nearly half of businesses (42 percent) relying on these applications experienced at least one data loss while using them last year, with 59 percent reporting it took at least half a day to recover from that loss, according to a survey of 326 IT managers, engineers and sales personal conducted by Kroll Ontrack, a provider of data recovery, e-discovery and information management.</p><p>And a quarter of reporting organizations experienced multiple losses. The degree of severity varied, with 20 percent categorizing their loss as a level one, defined as a severe disruption, such as a down system. Sixteen percent indicated their data loss was a level two, or major disruption, while 37 percent categorized their data loss as a level three, or occasional disruption, and 18 percent indicated it was a level four, or minimal disruption, such as an enhancement request.</p><p>Recovery was a time-consuming and expensive endeavor, the survey found. While 59 percent of organizations reported losing at least half a day, 14 percent lost multiple days and 5 percent said they never recovered from the loss.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3186-microsoft-exchange-sharepoint-server-outages-data-loss-businesses.html">Keep reading...</a></p>