How much does a database outage actually cost you?
Enter your details below. Industry multipliers from Ponemon Institute, Gartner, and Uptime Institute ensure this isn't a guess — it's a number you can take to the CFO.
Ponemon Institute, "Cost of Data Center Outages" (2016). Financial services median: $5,602 per minute (ponemon.org)
Gartner, "Cost of Downtime for Mission-Critical Applications" — Financial services: $5M–$10M per hour for unplanned outages
Uptime Institute, "Annual Global Data Center Survey" (2023) — 43% of organizations experienced an unplanned outage in the past three years; median duration 2.5 hours
IDC, "Data Age 2025" — eCommerce businesses lose $100K–$500K per hour during peak trading periods
HIMSS Analytics / Ponemon — Healthcare organizations: $1.5M–$2M per hour for EHR and clinical system downtime
Salesforce / IDC — SaaS companies: $100K–$250K per hour in subscription revenue loss; enterprise deployments can exceed $1M/hour