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The True Costs of Downtime in 2025: A Deep Dive by Business Size and Industry

Erwood Group

As digital transformation accelerates, the reliance on IT infrastructure intensifies, making system outages not just an inconvenience but a financial catastrophe. Senior IT Managers face pressure to minimize outages while justifying investments in redundancy. According to Siemens (2024), the automotive sector incurs $2.3

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Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

AWS Disaster Recovery

As a refresher from previous blogs, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. Production outages are scary for everyone, but with the right system monitoring solution, they can be made less stressful. Standardize observability.

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Maximizing Your Returns: The Proven ROI of Organizational Resilience

everbridge

Complex IT systems have several failure points, and it only takes one system change to cause a domino effect of failures and outages. Those outages could lead to websites and applications going offline, ecommerce sites no longer taking orders, or end-users being without a crucial service.

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Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery

Pure Storage

For example, a targeted ransomware attack on an ecommerce site’s third-party payment portal wouldn’t need to trigger a system-wide recovery effort for the entire application and every database. What Sort of Data Needs to Be Recovered? In general, there’s not much that can be done to prevent a natural disaster.