With the Cost of Just One Minute of a Data Centre Outage and You Could Have Trained Two Data Centre Technicians.
Latest Data Centre Outage Figures Announced are:
- The cost of data centre outage is $7,900 per minute, this is an increase of 41% from 2010*
- 91% of data centres have experienced an unplanned data centre outage in the past 24 months**
- Accidental human error
- IT equipment failure
- Generator failure
- Cyber crime
- Water incursion
- UPS system failure
- Inclement weather
- The average reported outage length was 86 minutes, resulting in average cost per incident of approximately $690,200. (In 2010 it was 97 minutes at approximately $505,500.)
- For a total data center outage, which had an average recovery time of 119 minutes, average costs were approximately $901,500. (In 2010, it was 134 minutes at about $680,700.)
- For a partial data center outage, which averaged 56 minutes in length, average costs were approximately $350,400. (In 2010, it was 59 minutes at approximately $258,000.)
The main causes are:
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* Source: Emerson unless otherwise stated
** Source: Ponemon Institute
