Would like to share an article I came across regarding IT Downtime
IT System Downtime Costs $26.5 Billion A Year, Study Finds
CA-sponsored study shows downtime costs North American businesses some $159,000 per company per year, impacting mission critical services, operations, finance and procurement. SMBs shed about $15 billion per year from IT downtime.
http://www.itchannelplanet.com/business_news/article.php/3916786/IT+System+Downtime+Costs+$26.5+Billion+A+Year,+Study+Finds
As the article notes: better data protection, improved infrastructure design, identification of business critical systems and data and tapping into the right partner can help businesses recovery more rapidly and effectively from a service outage.
This article goes hand-in-hand with many of the posts on this blog regarding proactive and preventive maintenance of your data center power and cooling systems. We recommend you take a look at some of these posts so that your data center or other mission critical facility will be protected against downtime.