Data Center Downtime Truths

The Truth About Data Center Downtime With the rise in smartphones, cloud computing, and the burgeoning Internet of Things, business's reliance on data centers continues to grow - as does the impact of downtime. It's critical that your data center infrastructure adapt in order to scale with ever-expanding data storage, access, and uptime needs. Downtime Costs Average Data Center Downtime Cost Maximum Downtime Costs in 2016 $740,357 . $2,409,991 $690,204 Increased 81% since 2010 32% since 2013 2013 2016 $9,000 Тop 3 Activities Impacted as a Result of Unplanned Outage End-User Productivity Lost Revenue Business Disruption Per Minute Average cost per outage. lall Rise in cost of downtime since the first study in 2010 Reasons for Downtime 1 UPS system failure number Top Reasons for Outages 2016 Fastest Growing Cause of Outage: Cybercrime UPS System Failure Additional Human Error 22% 25% . Generator Failure 6% 30 Cyber Crime (ĎDOS) 25 22% .. Weather Related 20 10% 15 Rose from 2% of outages in 10 2010 to 18% in 2013 and is now 22% IT Equipment Failure 4% Water, Heat or CRAC Failure 11% 2010 2013 2016 How Businesses Are Doing 3 out 80% 20% FOR SALE of 4 of businesses go out of business within 6 months of significant data loss companies get a failing grade for disaster recovery Businesses typically spend 80% of available resources to restore 20% or required systems, apps and data. 60% 6/ 10 |companies don't have a complete disaster recovery plan. 4/ 10 companies that have DR plans report theirs doesn't work. Is your business prepared for a disaster? Download the Disaster Recovery Checklist to make sure. Protect your business by keeping your data in highly available facilities with the redundancy, uptime, and failovers you require. Contact MTS at 703-594-5200 or [email protected] to build a solution that fits. MS MAXIMIZED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS www.maxtechsol.com Sources: Cost of Data Center Outages, Ponemon Institute, LLC, January 2016. http://www.emersonnetwork power.com/en-US/Resources/Market/Data-Center/Latest-Thinking/Ponemon/Pages/2016-Cost-of-Data-Center-Outages-Report.aspx http://centretechnologies.com/data-loss-statistics-that-will-make-you-think-twice-about-business-continuity/ http://www.computerworld.com/article/2563795/disaster-recovery/calculating-the-cost-of-downtime.html http://drbenchmark.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ANNUAL_REPORT-DRPBenchmark_Survey_Results_2014_report.pdf %24