Where they are located, if something "bad" starts to happen, they don't have 2 hours to failover to the DR site. If their main data center is still standing and receiving utilities in 31 seconds they will consider themselves very lucky.
Webster > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Subject: Re: Consultants > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had 1 client that had to be back up and running within 30 seconds to > > the disaster recovery center. They had calculated downtime as costing > > them just over $100,000 per minute! They spent almost $10,000,000 > > getting their HA/FT/DR stuff setup and tested. > > At $100K/minute, 30 seconds is only $50K. For $10M they could sustain > nearly two hours of downtime at that rate. ;-) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
