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There’s No Right Time for Downtime                                                        ITIC’s 11th annual Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey data indicates that 97% of large enterprises with more than 1000 employees say that on average, a single hour of downtime per year costs their company over $100,000. Even more significantly: four in 10 enterprises – 41% – indicate that […]

Cost of Hourly Downtime Exceeds $300,000 for 90% of Firms; 41% of Enterprises Say Hourly Downtime Costs $1 Million to Over $5 Million ITIC Position In the 21st century Digital Age of “always on” IoT interconnected systems, AI, analytics and cloud computing, organizations have zero tolerance for downtime. This is true for all organizations – […]

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The IBM z16 mainframe lives up to its reputation for delivering “zero downtime.”   The latest z16 server, introduced in April 2022, delivers nine nines—99.9999999%—of uptime and reliability. This is just over 30 milliseconds – 31.56 milliseconds to be precise – of per server annual downtime, according to the results of the ITIC 2023 Global […]

For the fourth straight year, enterprises ranked mission critical servers from IBM, Lenovo, Huawei and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (in that order) as the most secure platforms which experienced the least amount of successful data breaches and proved the most formidable for hackers to crack. Only a miniscule 0.1% of IBM Z mainframes suffered unplanned downtime due […]

Reliability/Uptime by the Numbers Organizations measure server and application reliability percentages in “nines.” There is an order of magnitude difference of server and application reliability and uptime between each additional “nine.”  Four nines – 99.99% – reliability equals 52.56 minutes of unplanned per server/per annum downtime or 4.32 minutes of per server monthly unplanned downtime (See […]