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What is unplanned IT downtime costing you every year?
Enter a few facts about your business and see the annual cost in Canadian dollars, broken into lost productivity, lost revenue and emergency recovery, with the assumptions in plain sight.
Your business
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Everyone on the payroll, not just office staff.
Base salary before benefits, we add burden separately.
Top line revenue for the whole business.
From the moment work stops to the moment it resumes.
Outages significant enough to stop people working.
Based on 2,080 working hours per year. The managed IT comparison assumes proactive management prevents 60% of incidents and shortens the rest by 70%. The downstream impact multiplier captures hidden costs such as customer churn, reputation damage, overtime and missed deadlines.
Estimated annual cost of downtime
$108,873
$18,145 per incident, $4,536 per hour of downtime, across 24 downtime hours a year.
- Lost productivity
- $18,930
- Lost revenue
- $28,846
- Emergency IT recovery
- $6,660
- Hidden downstream impact
- $54,436
With proactive managed IT
Estimated annual cost
$16,794
Recoverable each year
$92,079
These results are an estimate based on the assumptions shown. Actual costs vary by industry, environment and the nature of each outage.
See how we keep this number at zero.
Tested backups, defined recovery objectives, and 24/7 monitoring from a team based in Burlington, Ontario.
