In today’s period, businesses is defined to have the motto of ‘Always stay connected’ and even uptimes of 3 consecutive 9s is said to be avoided more often(99.9%) and a near 100% accuracy is required, if businesses are serious about what they do. But still 50% of businesses doesn’t learn the importance of uptimes and stay being lethargic dealing downtimes.
Time is Money:
Most businesses underestimate the effects of downtimes on their business critical applications and the cost their company is about to lose as a result. While their estimation lies somewhere around $40,000 or less, the actual cost to company is pretty much high.
Reputation is utmost essential:
More than the effects on business critical applications, downtimes have adverse impression over reputation of a company. It leads to dissatisfaction of customers, who relied their trust completely on our long-term success of undisrupted service providence and this downtime hits a blow to their trust.
In July 2012- just a day before olympics, twitter went down for an hour’s period. This made a black mark to their reputation for a longer period and it took some time for them to restore the trust of its users. The number of businesses relied on businesses that period is relatively good at that period which now increased tremendously.
Business loss should be accounted:
Businesses tend to forget that apart from the effects on reputation and business critical applications, businesses underestimate or in most cases do not take into account- the amount of loss they witness financially on sales and production during a downtime.
In current scenario, there are numerous options available for businesses to overcome downtime issues. All they need is the awareness of downtime issues and importance of uptime.Vembu BDR suite, being a universal backup and disaster recovery product suite for both physical and virtual environments provide features that promotes business continuity and 100% uptime.
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