The data center is one of the most dynamic and critical operations in any business. Complexity and criticality have only increased in recent years as data centers experienced steady growth in capacity and density, straining resources and increasing the consequences of poor performance.
Because the cost of downtime is so high, availability of IT capacity is generally the most important metric on which data centers are evaluated.
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Amazon is struggling to restore customer data lost because of an outage at a data center in Ireland, as developers grow increasingly frustrated over the inability to access applications they have built on top of Amazon's cloud service.
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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.