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Recovery time & downtime cost calculator
The cost of a technology outage can cripple a business. Use our recovery time & downtime cost calculator to focus on a handful of simple metrics that might come into play during a downtime event, and start a general analysis of what an outage could mean to your business. The results of this calculator are meant to help estimate loss, and does not calculate actual loss.
Recovery & Data Storage
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Systems include, but are not limited to, email, documents, specific business systems (e.g., point of sale, shipping & logistics, databases), etc.?
How long can your business survive without access to your IT systems?
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If disaster strikes, work often stops and any work that does occur often must be redone. How many hours of work are you willing to repeat in a worst case scenario?
How many hours of work are you willing to lose / repeat?
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In order to give you a correct calculation we need to get an idea of how much data you have in your system across your organization.
How much data do you have on critical business systems?
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What is the timeframe between each of your backups? E.g. every hour, once a day, once a week.
How often do you back up this data?
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From when disaster strikes, how long does it take for your end user to notify you, for you to assess the situation, access your backups, and start the recovery process? Think of this as your response time.
On average, how long does it take you to be notified of an issue so you can start troubleshooting the downtime incident?
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Storing your data locally is designed for fast data transfers, however you are at risk if there is a disaster in the office such as fire, floods or theft. Cloud data is stored off-site, which brings an extra level of availability albeit at a slower speed for full bare metal restores.
Where do you currently store your backups?
Downtime & Recovery Costs
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Nearly every employee will be impacted by an IT outage and will not be able to perform their job obligations to a certain degree. We recommend including the entire staff in this field.
How many employees do you have?
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Even if the business stops due to an outage and employees are not able to perform some, or all, of their duties, employee wages typically are still paid. We are assuming yours will need to be paid, and this must be included in your cost of downtime calculations.
What is their average annual salary per employee?
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All staff come with overhead costs like gas, electric, rent, etc. Normally, this is about 50% of the average salary.
What is the average annual overhead cost of an employee?
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For most businesses, an outage will halt the ability to produce and accrue revenue. We are assuming that your revenue will cease during an outage, and so annual revenue helps to calculate the average cost of lost revenue during downtime.
What is your business's annual revenue?
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