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.

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.