This article discusses the true cost of downtime and provides 21 statistics to illustrate the impact of downtime on revenue, productivity, reputation, and more.
The article highlights that downtime happens in every organization, and its consequences are going up. Cyberattacks, human error, and networking issues are among the most common causes of application downtime.
The article also provides insights into the average cost of downtime, which can be significant, and how it varies depending on the size of an organization, how extensive the outage is, and how long it lasts, among other factors.
The author concludes by discussing ways to reduce the cost of downtime, such as investing in the right solutions for backup and recovery of data, regularly testing recovery plans and processes, and choosing solutions that are built for the technology you're using.







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