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Beyond the human cost, natural disasters like hurricane Ian can take a high toll on business continuity, causing enterprise-infrastructure damage that takes days or weeks to fix while downtime costs in the six figures per hour. If Ian didn\u2019t impact your operations, now is the time to prepare for a future disaster that might hit your network.<\/p>\n

Vulnerable areas include cloud providers\u2019 managed services that might require customers to explicitly specify they want their apps, compute, and storage housed in redundant, geographically separate availability zones. According to Uptime Institute, roughly one third of enterprises are architecting cloud apps that are vulnerable to outages in single cloud availability zones, rather than distributing their workloads across multiple zones.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic cloud providers call cloud services fully managed, and that creates a perception challenge, that as a customer, I don\u2019t need to build resilience in,\u201d Forrester Principal Analyst Naveen Chhabra via email. So IT pros need to be sure they\u2019ve got the resiliency they need. \u201cDifferent services have different resilience either built in natively or to be built by clients,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Calculate the true cost of downtime<\/h2>\n

It costs a premium, but this redundancy can reduce the chances of downtime significantly, Uptime says<\/a>. Justifying the cost may be difficult and require looking at the potential consequences differently than they have been in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy experience is that [disaster-recovery] programs are heavily under-invested from all perspectives\u2014people, process, technology, and governance,\u201d Chhabra said. \u201cLeaders ask for ROI justifications before allocating budgets for DR programs. While ROI is reasonable for many initiatives, unfortunately [it\u2019s] not for DR. Instead, what they need to look for is true cost of downtime.\u201d<\/p>\n

That price can be high. According to a recent IDC report, downtime can cost an average of $250,000 per hour<\/a>. According to Doug Matthews, senior vice president and general manager, Data Protection, Veritas Technologies, 98% of organizations say a single hour of downtime can cost them over $100,000.<\/a><\/p>\n