'Downtime is inevitable; prolonged disruption is not': Unplanned downtime is now costing businesses billions each year

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• The average Global 2000 company faces a $15,000 cost per minute after an incident or outage, Splunk study finds
• Customers are often the first to notice an incident, causing major reputational damage
• With many falsely identifying attacks as IT issues, greater observability is needed

New data from Splunk has claimed unplanned downtime now costs Global 2000 companies around $600 billion every year, which marks a 50% increase over the past two years.