In today’s highly digitized economy, businesses and corporations are increasingly relying on data centers to connect them to customers, partners, and other sources of revenue. As a result, the cost of data center outages is rising, with a quarter of data center operators responding to an Uptime Institute survey stating that their most recent downtime incident cost them over one million dollars in both direct and indirect costs. Power disruptions are the biggest cause of these outages, and their prevention continues to be a priority for the industry.
According to Uptime Institute, 80% of surveyed data center managers and operators said their organizations have experienced outages in the past three years. Power disruptions account for 43% of data center outages, with onsite system failures — specifically uninterruptible power supply (UPS) failures — being the most common cause…
