Data center downtime can mean lost revenue and the inability to access life-saving information, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website
For a healthcare data center, redundancy is key. Data center downtime can mean lost revenue and the inability to access life-saving information, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website. In a 2013 study on data center outages, 85 percent of 584 survey participants reported that their organization’s data centers experienced a loss of primary utility power in the past 24 months, the article said.
September 4, 2014
Topic Area: Information Technology
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