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Downtime Cost Calculator

Understand the true cost of IT downtime to your business

🏢 Business Profile

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Assumptions: Total business hours per year: 2,080 (8 hrs/day × 260 days)

⚠️ Downtime Scenario

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0% (minimal impact) 100% (complete stop)
If systems are down, can employees still do 20% of their work on paper/phones?
8 hours
15 min 48 hours

Downtime Statistics

Avg. SMB downtime cost: $427/minute
Avg. downtime per year: 14 hours
Ransomware avg. downtime: 21 days

Sources: Gartner, IDC, Coveware

Hourly Burn Rate

Cost Per Hour
$ 1,180
Productivity Loss $700
Revenue Loss $481

Total Downtime Cost

8 Hour Outage
$ 9,442
Total Productivity Loss $5,600
Total Revenue Loss $3,846

The Slide Advantage

RTO/RPO Comparison
❌ Traditional BCDR
Backup Frequency (RPO) 24 hours
Recovery Time (RTO) 24 hours
Outage Cost $28,327
SAVE $27,622 98%
✅ With Slide
Backup Frequency (RPO)
Recovery Time (RTO) 15-30 min
Outage Cost $590
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The Bottom Line

If your traditional backup takes 24 hours to restore, and your hourly downtime cost is $1,180, that outage costs you $28,327. With Slide, we can have you back in 15-30 minutes, saving you $27,622.

Data Loss Risk

RPO Comparison
Traditional BCDR Data at Risk Up to 24 hours of data Daily backups mean you could lose an entire day's work
With Slide Up to 1 hour of data Frequent backups minimize data loss exposure

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