Small and mid-size enterprises in India are adept at playing in the shadow economy and making even big ticket investments in cash.

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The problems in the manufacturing sector, which is predominantly made up of small- and mid-sized enterprises, adds to worrying reports of highly pessimistic consumer confidence levels and poor retail sales.

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"The No. 1 reason why businesses fail is because they run out of cash, " says Mary Goodman, president of Bottom Line Up Enterprises, an Arizona-based business consulting firm for small and mid-sized firms.

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By combining automated recovery, virtualization for instant availability, deduplication for efficiency, and cloud data centers for reliability, Quorum could provide small to mid-sized companies disaster recovery in minutes, which was previously only available to the largest enterprises and governments.

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