Recovery Time & Downtime Cost Calculator

The cost of a technology outage can cripple a business. Discover how much an outage could cost you and how you can minimize downtime and keep your business running with Datto SIRIS.

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Recovery & Data Storage

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Systems include, but are not limited to, email, documents, specific business systems (e.g., point of sale, shipping & logistics,databases), etc.?
How long can your business survive without access to your IT systems?

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If disaster strikes, work often stops and any work that does occur often must be redone. How many hours of work are you willing to repeat in a worst case scenario?
How many hours of work are you willing to lose / repeat?

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In order to give you a correct calculation we need to get an idea of how much data you have in your system across your organization.
How much data do you have on critical business systems?

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What is the timeframe between each of your backups? E.g. every hour, once a day, once a week.
How often do you back up this data?

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From when disaster strikes, how long does it take you to assess the situation, access your backups, and start the recovery process?
How long does it take to initiate your recovery process?

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Storing your data locally is designed for fast data transfers, however you are at risk if there is a disaster in the office such as fire, floods or theft. Cloud data is stored off-site, such as in a Datto data center, which brings an extra level of availability albeit at a slower speed for full bare metal restores.
Where do you currently store your backups?

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Speed of cloud recovery comes down to the amount of data you are trying to recover and your download speed. Devices with slower connections will take longer to recover.
What is the download speed from your cloud backup location? Unsure? Run a test here

Downtime & Recovery Costs

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Nearly every employee will be impacted by an IT outage and will not be able to perform their job obligations to a certain degree. We recommend including the entire staff in this field.
How many employees do you have?

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Even if the business stops due to an outage and employees are not able to perform some, or all, of their duties, employee wages typically are still paid. We are assuming yours will need to be paid, and this must be included in your cost of downtime calculations.
What is their average annual salary per employee?

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All staff come with overhead costs like, gas, electric, rent, etc. Normally, this is about 50% of the average salary.
What is the average annual overhead cost of an employee?

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For most businesses, an outage will halt the ability to product and accrue revenue. We are assuming that your revenue will case during an outage, and so annual revenue helps to calculate the average cost of lost revenue during downtime.
What is your business's annual revenue?

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Results

Current Solution

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Time between backups

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No Backup Taken

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This is the time it takes for your data to actually be downloaded back to your original device based on your backup location. Local backups will be quicker, but because a local disaster could take out local backups, but it’s always vital to ensure that you have a cloud backup as well.

Recovery Processing Time

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No Backup Taken

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If you experience a ransomware attack, you may be able to recover quickly. If you're faced with a fire or flood, you could be offsite for days and face higher costs than what you see here.

Total Downtime Losses

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Possible Business Closure

The Miller Group's Solution

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Datto's The Miller Group's solutions allow you to backup as frequently as every 5 minutes. They also allow for regular testing and validation of your backups, reducing your risk even further.

Time between backups

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In case of a disaster, The Miller Group can enable you to virtualize your backups, hosted in our cloud. On average, it only takes about {{bcdrrecovery}} minutes to access the Datto portal, find your backup copy, and to virtualize it.

Average Recovery Processing Time

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Downtime will always cost your business money. However, you can reduce it with The Miller Group's business continuity/disaster recovery solution. Compared to your current solution, you could reduce your possible downtime losses by around {{ localcostsaving }} {{ cloudcostsaving }}

Total Downtime Losses

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With the information that you've provided, we have identified that your estimated downtime losses per hour would be {{displayhourlyRevenueCost}}. However, as a result of not taking data backups the impact could be much worse!

In contrast, The Miller Group's business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions could reduce your downtime to {{displayBCDRDowntime}} and your overall downtime cost would fall to {{ bcdrdowntimecost }}. In the rare case that the first recovery attempt doesn't work, your costs would only increase by {{perdattobackupdowntime}}, as opposed to {{perbackupdowntime}}{{perbackupdowntime}}your businesses closing all together.

With The Miller Group, even if you are experiencing an outage at your workplace, work doesn't have to stop. We can get you back to business in a little as {{bcdrrecovery}} minutes on virtual servers, which can be accessed anywhere you have working internet. Features like Ransomware Detection and Advanced Backup Verification let you rest easy knowing your backups will work in your time of need.

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