How much does a system downtime cost your business?

More specifically how much money you need to spend to keep your business productive and how a system downtime will affect your overall business productivity? The affect of an outage on productivity entirely depends on the industry, business type and the level of its computer usage in order to achieve optimal productivity. An internet business that sells its products and services through a website is 100% dependent on its computer systems, while being productive in a small restaurant is less sensitive to its computer systems.

Another aspect to consider is, the number of employees that are affected by an outage or system downtime. Some employees cannot perform their tasks without accessing their computer systems while productivity of other employees is completely independent of computer systems.

The costs can be from couple of  hundreds to thousands of dollars. In general the cost of a downtime is calculated as follows:

outage cost = (downtime hours) X (cost/hour of downtime)

Most system failure and system  downtime can be prevented by monitoring and inspection that identifies issues before they happen.

Contact us about how we can start monitoring your systems and increase your system uptime