Here is an infographic from SingleHop, a cloud computing company, showing that while the cost of not using a backup service could seriously damage your company, many business owners are not taking deliberate measures to protect themselves by moving their data to cloud hosting.
Only a shocking 50% of enterprises backup their employees computers! When downtime happens, which it most assuredly will, there are a whole variety of negative effects that can take place. On average, sites have 13 instances of downtime each year.