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29 Jan 2026
How to Keep Your Data Center Up and Working?
The Uptime Institute surveyed thousands of datacenter professionals throughout the year on outages and they found that the vast majority of datacenter failures (around 70%) are caused by human error. Almost HALF of all 1300 respondents had a Significant or greater outage within the past three years. The average cost of an outage in the category Severe was greater than $ 1,000,000 per event.
As an example, a while ago the unexpected release of a fire suppression agent during periodic maintenance caused several services of the Microsoft Azure’s platform to automatically shut down. This caused difficulties for customers in Northern Europe trying to connect to hosted services.