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- Unplanned downtime can strike at any time from any number of causes. Although natural disasters may appear to be the most devastating cause of IT outages, application problems are the most frequent threat to IT uptime. According to Gartner, people and process problems cause an estimated 80 percent of unexpected application downtime. Human error, such as not performing a required task, performing a task incorrectly (such as mis-configuring software), overburdening a disk drive or deleting a critical file, play havoc with applications. – Gartner
- Maintaining maximum 99.99% uptime of devices in the data center is imperative for today’s distributed networks.
– Latronix, The Key to Maximizing Network & Server Uptime
- Maintaining SAN uptime is imperative in today's business environment. Cost of SAN downtime can add up to more than $100,000 per minute according to recent reports from RBC Capital. – Finisar, SAN Performance Monitoring is Essential to Maintaining SAN Uptime
- Studies show that most U.S. businesses cannot function without computer support, and most businesses that suffer catastrophic data loss or an extended IT outage go out of business. On average, enterprises lose between $84,000 and $108,000 (US) for every hour of IT system downtime according to estimates from studies and surveys performed by IT industry analyst firms. In addition to financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and energy are also high on the list of industries with a high rate of revenue loss during IT downtime. – Lakeview Technology, The One Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity
- Only 6 percent of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss survive, while 43 percent never reopen and 51 percent close within two years. – University of Texas
- Any application that plays a role in developing, creating, manufacturing, supporting, or distributing a product or service to buyers will significantly impact the organization during an outage event. – META Group, Inc.
- The information protection requirements in the Disaster Recovery regulatory demands will allow only short gaps of missing data or information due to an event. This means that doing daily back-up to tape is no longer sufficient. – Availability.com
- 84 percent of businesses experienced an unplanned email outage that averaged six hours … more than 1/3 of those companies still had not created a high availability plan for email. – Osterman Research
- We don’t have to look back very far to see the consequences of sudden or unexpected disasters affecting the IT infrastructure of major cities and businesses of every description. Consequently, IT managers have been—or soon will be tasked—to find ways to mitigate, eliminate or minimize as cost-effectively as possible the risks and effects of unplanned outages on the business. And, even more important, their executives will want assurances that information assets—data and applications—can remain available no matter what happens. – Lakeview Technology, The One Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity
