Disaster Recovery and High Availability Solutions

In today's fast paced IT environments, internal clients need constant access to their data also known as high availability. The loss of this access can only be measured in dollars.

What is the cost of not doing business? Recently, a company based in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania lost a server in their Boston site. The server was down for two days. This downtime cost the client close to $70,000 in lost billing time alone.

What does downtime cost?

  • Financial Sector: $1.5 million per hour
  • Telecom and Energy Sectors: $2.8 million per hour
  • Online retailer: $1 million per hour

Source: Meta Group Research, 2002

Top 5 causes of downtime:

  • Software = 40%
  • Planned Downtime = 30%
  • People = 15%
  • Hardware = 10%
  • Environment = 5%

Source: IEEE Computer

Despite this clear message that downtime is disastrous, Gartner research shows that fewer than 30 percent of Fortune 2000 companies have invested in a full business continuity and disaster recovery plan. The reason for this oversight may simply be that the technical challenges seem too daunting or the cost of implementation is perceived as too great. These are valid concerns, but they can be addressed with High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions from High Gear Consulting, Inc.