Three strategies to keep your business running

1 Verizon. “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report.” May 2013.2 Aberdeen Group. "Network Security for Small and Mid-Size Businesses." September 2015.3 ESG. “Five Key Considerations to Ensure Data Recovery: A Guide for Small and Midsized Organizations.” June 2015.4 IDC study referenced in IDC white paper, “Business Risk: E�ective Technology Protecting Your Business,” a white paper sponsored by HPE.

August 2014.5 AMI-Partners. “Protecting Technology Infrastructure” white paper. January 2014.6 Intel internal measurements. June 2014.7 Munich RE, NATCatSERVICE, January 2015, citing worldwide statistics.8 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.9 As compared to a fully hydrated backup. Subject to customer qualification and compliance with the Get Protected Guarantee Terms and

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Small and midsize businesses face big-time challenges

Cyber threats Malicious activities and cyber-attacks are a growing threat.

Mobile threats Opening your network to mobile workers, customers, and devices creates new risks to your data and applications.

Disasters Natural or manmade disasters can come out of nowhere.

System downtime

Small and midsize businesses su�er data breaches more often than larger companies.1

Downtime results in an average loss of

$75,000/hr.4

Human errors and technical issues threaten application availability.

of midsize firms have employees who access business applications on personal devices.5

of midsize businesses say preventing data loss is an IT priority.6

The number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980.7

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.

31%

3 hoursis the downtime tolerance for high-priority applications.3

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• Deploy modern servers with resilience designed in.

• Ensure contingency plans are in place for hardware and software failures.

• Leverage professional support services for proactiveproblem avoidance.

• Establish a comprehensive data security strategy.

• Put intrusion prevention systems in place.

• Establish consistent security policies across wired and wireless networks.

Keep your business running with three IT best practices

Use modern network technologies for pervasive security.

21 Build a resilient infrastructure.

Implement a backup and disaster recovery strategy.

3• Build a comprehensive business continuity plan.• Leverage reliable long-term data storage technologies.• Keep your data accessible with solutions for fast recovery.

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1. Data availability | Keep your applications up and running.

2. Data security | Protect your networks and systems.

3. Data protection | Safeguard the lifeblood of your business.

HPE helps you build a resilient infrastructure with modern servers and networking with 4x faster workload performance6 and 60% lower latency.8

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.

HPE helps protect your data with storage that is scalable, fast, reliable, and a�ordable 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.