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## [How Much Does Downtime Really Cost?](/knowledgebase/blog/2012-10-26-how-much-does-downtime-really-cost/)

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Author[Jonathan Rosenson](#)

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Calculating the Cost of Downtime The term “disaster recovery planning” is unfairly misleading. Because of the inclusion of the word “disaster,” the phrase tends to invoke imagery that is tied to events of epic proportion – things like, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes. However, in the IT landscape, disasters are defined with a little more subtlety. Small scale events...

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