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Survey Says Companies Struggle With Cloud In Disaster Recovery: Page 2 of 2

Respondents expect it to take up to two hours to be up and running after an outage, compared with up to four hours last year. However, the median downtime per outage in the past 12 months was actually five hours, and organizations reported an average of four downtime incidents during that time - with the most common causes being system upgrades, power outages and failures, and cyber-attacks. And although 70 percent had experienced incidents related to power, only 26 percent of respondents' organizations had conducted a power outage and failure impact assessment.

The survey included 1,700 companies of 5,000 employees or more worldwide, with a minimum number of companies surveyed in various countries to ensure meaningful results. Factors such as budgets and profitability were not considered. The survey has a 95 percent confidence factor with a margin of error of 2.4 percent, Elliman says.