Data Center Outages Can Be Painful

by Mike Rinaldi on 7/29/11 10:57 AM

Part Two of National Report reveals costs of unplanned outages can add up to thousands of dollars in a matter of minutes
Data center downtime comes with a steep price tag, costing businesses more than $5,000 per minute according to a new Ponemon Institute study of U.S.-based data centers.
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Highlights of the report include:
  • Average cost of data center downtime across industries was approximately $5,600 per minute.
  • The average reported incident length was 90 minutes, resulting in average cost per incident of approximately $505,500.
  • For a total data center outage, which had an average recovery time of 134 minutes, average costs were approximately $680,000.
  • For a partial data center outage, which averaged 59 minutes in length, average costs were approximately $258,000.
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