Finding a balance between tracking changes and open, honest communication can go a long way in preventing unplanned downtime and keeping engineers happy.

Many businesses are asking what they can do to protect their bottom line from the devastation of cyber-attacks, or worse, significant or unrecoverable data centre downtime.

New data from Uptime Institute has found that downtime costs and consequences are worsening as those involved in data infrastructure fail to find ways to curb outages.

More than half of security leaders say they have seen an increase in attempted cyber attacks. In addition, many have been directly impacted by data breaches.

54% have experienced downtime due to an outage, 38% due to a cyber or physical breach, and 34% had unplanned downtime.

It’s estimated the average cost per network outage in the United States alone amounts to US$402,542 – with one in ten major outages costing over $1 million.

A PagerDuty survey says that 42% of firms only uncover major technology issues from their customers.

The study interviewed almost 2,000 security professionals, 209 of which were Australian CISOs.

One hour of business-critical application downtime can cost larger companies $144,062.52 per hour, with an average repair time of over five hours.

Ruckus Networks’ State of Wi-Fi survey finds almost half of Australian organisations deal with Wi-Fi downtime up to five times per month.

Ruckus has released findings from its study of 1200 organizations in APAC who collectively have lost US$53m from downtime in the last 12 months.

“One of the major benefits of moving our equipment over to Interactive was the faster turnaround when our equipment fails.”

Are cloud data centers sufficiently equipped to deal with the volume and speed of the data generated in large production facilities?

Results from the survey found that 89% of SMBs have signed up for security solutions to protect against threats.

“Getting this right means less downtime, financial impact, loss of customers' trust and damage to brand reputation."

Nostalgia is nice, but in this day and age, technology advancements are too good to ignore.

Veeam’s business continuity solution can save enterprise companies an average of $300,000 per hour of downtime.

There’s no getting around the fact that owning and operating a data center is expensive.

If these challenges sound at all familiar, know you’re not alone – every data center owner/operator has them.

Australian retailers face higher online cart abandonment than anywhere in the world.

​Ixia, a Keysight Business, has released the findings from new research that delved into the concerns of IT professionals around the world.

"Every day your data center isn’t operational is another day you’re not generating revenue ."

In this day and age, data breaches and IT downtime are almost inevitable.

As data center demands grow, what’s the effect on enterprise’s infrastructure and how will that impact manageability and potential downtime?