How Much Does an Hour of Network Downtime Cost? Download the eBook

According to the article,"Is Network Downtime & Failure Costing You $50,000 Per Hour?" the figures are astounding:

• For 25% of companies surveyed, a single hour of a network outage cost the business between $100,000 and $500,000.
• Another 29% report the cost of downtime to be between $75,000 and $100,000.
• One technology company estimated its cost “per downtime incident” at between $750,000 and $1,500,000 and was experiencing between ten and fifteen of these “incidents” per year.
• Data Centers are obviously at a greater risk - The following are figures that represent the average cost of a single network failure within 41 data centers that were surveyed:
  • Business Disruption – $179,827
  • Lost Revenue – $118,080
  • End-User Productivity Loss – $96,226
  • IT Productivity Loss – $42,530
  • Detection – $22,347

These are obviously large scale issues for some very large companies, but being a smaller company with the same percentage losses doesn’t lessen the impact to the company’s surviving bottom line. Clearly, network and application performance has gone beyond being a quality issue—it has become a revenue impacting issue! For this reason, we have compiled this eBook taken from our Perfecting Performance Blog, to discuss Network and Application Performance, and how right-sizing and network monitoring will increase your efficiency… and of course your bottom line.