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Spread Your Disaster Recovery Risk! How To Avoid The Hidden Cost of Downtime<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Beyond hardware failures and cyberattacks, global events and regional instability can halt critical operations without warning. Businesses can be exposed to forces outside their control, and a single disruption can ripple across systems, teams and customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While you can’t predict downtime or the damage it causes, you can prepare thoroughly to minimize the consequences and be able to get your business back on its feet in a matter of minutes, thanks to full automation. Proper backup and a disaster recovery platform is today\u2019s essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real cost of downtime<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Downtime costs an average of $14,056 per minute for midsize businesses with the costs rising to $23,750 per minute for larger enterprises – scenarios which are unsustainable in today’s challenging global economic situation. And outages are becoming more frequent. According to a recent report, more than 58% of organizations suffered at least one major cloud outage in the last year, with interruptions to cloud services lasting, on average, 64 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent global events have also shown that outages can stretch far beyond an hour. Geopolitical conflict has raised concerns among CIOs about the possibility of multiday AWS downtime, demonstrating how regional instability can threaten even the most trusted cloud providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding the real cost of downtime is only half the battle; the other half is implementing risk reduction strategies. Preventing downtime is not just about keeping your systems running; it\u2019s about protecting everything you have built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is downtime?<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Downtime is the period when your systems, devices or applications are unavailable, disrupting core services. There are two types of downtime: planned and unplanned. For instance, the first occurs during maintenance, while the second is due to unexpected issues, such as equipment failures, cyberattacks or power outages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unplanned downtime hits hardest. It happens without any warning and causes critical systems to halt. For small businesses, even short interruptions can be catastrophic, as every minute without service adds to downtime costs, delays recovery, damages reputation and leads to loss of revenue and, in some cases, client churn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planned downtime, although still an interruption, can be mitigated when executed outside business hours and does not lead to such devastating consequences. It happens due to scheduled maintenance, software updates and upgrades that can help reduce future downtime risks in the long term, ensuring equipment and processes operate reliably and at peak efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal of planned downtime is to strengthen the security posture across devices, improve response times, resolve bugs or add new hardware to prevent larger and more costly outages caused by equipment failures or cyberattacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many powerful tools and technologies enable organizations to track downtime, pinpoint root causes and calculate lost revenue, providing a more accurate picture of the overall impact. Through data collection and monitoring, businesses of all sizes can identify common causes, implement effective recovery strategies, and minimize both the frequency and severity of downtime incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to calculate downtime risk and justify backup and disaster recovery investment<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Can you afford downtime? Here’s a forward-looking framework to estimate potential losses and demonstrate why Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud pays for itself before disaster strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n