among IT and data center managers; only top six outage categories are shown
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The sourse adds the following inforamtion: "Category 1, negligible, outages and outages in which the root cause was not determined or disclosed are omitted for all years."
The source does not provide the exact date of a survey.
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Global data center IT outages 2016-2023, by industry
Between 2016 and 2023, around a quarter of reported public IT and data center outages happened in the digital services industry. Cloud and internet giants and telecommunication firms followed, with up to ** percent of the outages. Meanwhile, government and transportation reported the lowest share of public outages.
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