Seven Questions to Ask When Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan

June 27, 2016

According to a recent IDC report titled "DevOps and the Cost of Downtime: Fortune 1000 Best Practice Metrics Quantified," the average total cost of unplanned application downtime for a Fortune 1000 company is between $1.25 and $2.5 billion per year. The cost of a failed critical application is between $500,000 and $1 million per hour. Even if you're not in the Fortune 1000, the cost of downtime is steep – and rising. In 2016, Ponemon Institute surveyed 63 data center organizations for its "2016 Cost of Data Center Outages" report and found that unplanned downtime cost $8,851 per minute, up…