Report: Unplanned Data Center Outages Cost Companies Nearly $9,000 Per Minute
Latest benchmark study from Emerson and Ponemon Institute finds price of downtime continues to climb; average outage cost rose 38% in five years.
Emerson Network Power, in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute, has released the 2016 Cost of Data Center Outages report that estimates the full costs associated with unplanned outages at data centers. Emerson and the Ponemon Institute polled 63 data center organizations in the U.S. that had experienced an outage in the past 12 months.
The two organizations co-released the original Cost of Data Center Outages study, the first independently conducted research on the cost and causes of data center downtime, in 2010. It was updated in 2013 and again this year. Key findings from the new report include: