{"id":2224,"date":"2012-06-20T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T12:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jun\/20\/cloud-downtime-cost-45m-over-five-years-iwgcr-claims\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T12:58:24","slug":"cloud-downtime-cost-45m-over-five-years-iwgcr-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-downtime-cost-45m-over-five-years-iwgcr-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud downtime cost \u00a345m over five years, IWGCR claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a potentially alarming finding from the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR): a combined 568 hours of downtime at 13 major cloud providers has cost &pound;45.8 million (or $71.7 million) in business since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>In the report, entitled &ldquo;Downtime statistics of current cloud solutions&rdquo;, IWGCR analysed the 13 providers, including Amazon, Microsoft and PayPal among others, and worked out that on average, cloud services were unavailable for 7.5 hours per year.<\/p>\n<p>Turning it around, it means that cloud services are available 99.917% of the time &ndash; a comparatively huge difference from the oft-feted figure of 99.999% availability.<\/p>\n<p>There has been plenty of scepticism concerning the supposed &lsquo;five nines&rsquo; over the years, and this report may go some way to providing concrete evidence that 99.999% availability is a myth for now.<\/p>\n<p>To put it into context, nPhaseOne notes that with &lsquo;five nines &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a potentially alarming finding from the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR): a combined 568 hours of downtime at 13 major cloud providers has cost &pound;45.8 million (or $71.7 million) in business since 2007.<br \/>\nIn t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}