Emerson Network Power has released the 2013 State of the Data Center infographic illustrating the increasing criticality of data centers and severe consequences of data center outages.
The infographic highlights how businesses are increasingly relying on data centers and are aware of the risks and costs of downtime. Those costs are increasing by 33 per cent since the release of the company?s infographic and businesses are taking steps to avoid those costs. Complete outages have reduced by 20 per cent over the same period.
The infographic also highlights increasing reliance on data centers in areas that were traditionally offline pursuits and consumers? high expectations of speed and performance.
A few facts explored in the infographic include:
What is driving electronic dependence?
The transition to ?e? is accelerating. For example, books and photos are increasingly electronic. 172 million e-readers are expected to be sold in 2013 ? nearly six times the number of e-readers sold in 2011. More than 40 million photos are uploaded to Instagram every day.
Is downtime a significant issue?
Yes. The average cost of a complete data center outage is $901,560, and businesses average one complete outage every year. That is a significant issue and not surprising in light of the fact that global e-commerce spending topped $1.25 trillion this year. That?s larger than the gross domestic product of Mexico.
