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Network Downtime Is More Expensive Than You Think, Atrion Exec Writes
Take Proactive Stance to Fix Network Weaknesses Before They Hurt You
| Source: Atrion
WARWICK, RI--(Marketwire - November 27, 2007) - CEOs would be shocked if they added up all the
costs of computer-network downtime, Paul Cronin, vice president of Atrion
Networking Corp. in Warwick, R.I., writes in Mass High Tech.
While two-thirds of enterprises quizzed by Forrester Research could not
provide an estimate of the financial cost of downtime, Infonetics Research
found that overall downtime costs for businesses in the United States
averaged a whopping 3.6 percent of annual revenue.
"Many organizations monitor the effects of application-related failures
from a technical or fault-diagnostic perspective but fail to relate any
problems to an organization's bottom line," Cronin writes.
"Organizations today need to move to a strong offense as their best defense
when it comes to architecting a resilient network. Instead of simply
reacting, they need to uncover and fix the weakness in their network before
it hurts their business," he adds.
Most organizations spend the IT money on operational and maintenance
functions without enhancing their critical network infrastructure.
There's no magic bullet. "A plan to assure a super-reliable network must
be comprehensive and look broadly at many factors and consider how
technology is fused with the business. Every decision is critical, from
hardware selection to product setup, from employee training to
service-level agreements with providers. All budget initiatives need to
include details on the impact of failure, the risk associated with the
potential for failure and the percentage of staff affected by a failure,"
Cronin writes.
The full article can be read online at
http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/11/19/focus19.html
Atrion specializes in the fusion of business and technology. Headquartered
in Warwick, R.I., Atrion has sales offices in Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Maine, and New Hampshire and is a 1nService Member company. Web:
www.atrion.net.