On a scale of 1 (negligible) to 5 (severe) how would you classify your data center’s most impactful outage in the past three years, either in your own facility or because of a third-party service provider? (n=781)
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Global severity level of data center IT outages 2023
As of 2023, ** percent of detected data center and IT outages worldwide had a significant impact on the organizations. Meanwhile, *** percent of them were evaluated as serious, while **** percent were categorized as severe.
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