Global severity level of data center IT outages 2023

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Ani Petrosyan
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Jul 30, 2024

As of 2023, 17 percent of detected data center and IT outages worldwide had a significant impact on the organizations. Meanwhile, six percent of them were evaluated as serious, while four percent were categorized as severe.

Level of severity of the most significant data center and IT downtime worldwide as of 2023

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Release date

March 2024

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2023

Number of respondents

781 respondents

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among IT and data center managers

Supplementary notes

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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