Slaying the Downtime Dragon

Slaying the Vowntime Pragon ountime is a dragon, hoarding your money. And it's getting worse. Between June 2010 and May 2013 the cost of dountime rose 67% Average cost of dountime in 2013 $163,674 per hour business Cost of downtime in 2013 by b size, Business making Business making Business making betuween $50 million and $1 billion less than more than $50 million $1 billion $8,581 $215,683 $686,250 per hour per hour per hour every company fares the same 2 L in the fight against dountime. ot Aberdeen looked at more than 200 companies and compared their success against disaster. groups compare. Here's how the different The champions were on average 100% operational in 1.13 hours. Knights Squires Peasants Dountime events* 56 2.26 3.92 Average dountime 0.16 brs. 1.49 brs. 17.82 brs. Longest dountime .21 brs. 4.78 brs. 43.71 hrs Time to recovery 1.13 brs. 5.18 hrs. 27.11 brs. *During the course of a year. Ouch! In a large business, a dountime event could cost almost $30 million! Sut uhat makes the difference between successful dountime slayers and those who get eaten? Preparation. A larger percentage of the best companies do these things to fight the downtime dragon: Dragon Slayers Lunch Determine RTO by application 73% 35% Develop RPO 61% 31% Test their DR plan 84% 28% Measure recouery 69% 29% performance Use high availability 66% 35% processes Use high availability technology 62% 41% Are. eyou ready to fight the downtime dragon? ; STORAGECRAFT. Backup Fast, Recover Faster Sources "Backup 'Hoarders' Fail the Recovery Test." Aberdeen. April 2014. (http://www.storagecraft.com/blog/download/0571-8877-AIBackupHoarders-JR-V6.pdf] "Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Top Performance Capabilities of Best-in-Class IT Organizations." Aberdeen. October 2013. [http://www.aberdeen.com/Aberdeen-Library/8714/Al-business-continuity-performance.aspx] Lessons from Sandy: Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery and Why Organizations Need Both." Aberdeen. January 2013. (http://www.aberdeen.com/Aberdeen-Library/8310/Al-disaster-recovery-downtime.aspx]