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Certainly, data center outages and downtime are a nightmare for businesses.
Outages can cause a whole series of expensive and sometimes irreparable damage – not only for a company or government agency but the economy, too.
They result in decreased productivity, huge expenses and damaged reputation.
In addition, there can be enormous human costs. For example, arc flashes result in extreme temperatures, which lead to life-threatening chain reactions.
There are numerous causes for outages such as accidents, equipment failures, cyber criminals, extreme weather, operator errors and facility-related issues.
So, it’s critical to maintain IT efficiently.
The good news is that outages are preventable.
To explain priorities and actionable steps, see the following infographic, Data Center Downtime: Causes and Prevention.
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“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
-Edgar Allan Poe
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