Measuring Downtime
Comparing Technologies
Disaster Recovery at Scale
Why You Need
Disaster Recovery
Total Cost of Ownership
The Future of Disaster Recovery
POWERED BY
THE COST OF
DOWNTIME
Modern businesses cannot afford to lose
data. Customers & stakeholders, both
internal and external, expect seamless
24/7 access to their data and applications.
Whatever the cause—natural disaster,
human error, or cyberattack—downtime
and data loss are costly and can be
extremely risky to the life of a business.
Every enterprise, no matter the industry,
needs a cutting-edge disaster recovery
strategy to ensure uptime, minimize
data loss, and maximize productivity no
matter what kind of disruption or outage
comes along.
Source: IDC State of IT Resilience Report
Disruptions cost a business even when
it's not tier 1 or critical applications that
have an outage. And it's important to keep
in mind that the cost of downtime is not
only impacted by revenue-generating VMs,
or those directly involved in creating or
processing sales. Consider indirect impact
as well:
• Brand damage, either for the IT division
or the business as a whole
• Loss of productivity; for example, when
email, file servers, or the CRM goes down
• Time spent during and aer an incident
on analysis, communication, or reporting
$250,000/hr
$2,000,000/yr
Average cost of downtime per
hour across all industries and
organizational sizes
The collective cost of 8 hours
of downtime per year to an
organization
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