Online Calculator: How Much Does it REALLY Cost When Your Network Goes Down?

Stuff happens. Networks crash. But what is the cost to your organization when that happens? The REAL answer might surprise you. A good disaster recovery planning website www.drplanning.org [1] offers a link to a Network Downtime Cost Calculator [2] where you can calculate both direct and indirect costs of a network failure. IT specialists - you may want to run this calculator to help justify increases in the technology budget for the firm. Management - you may also want to run this calculator to get a better feel for the impact of a downed network.