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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>By Marc Dallas \u00b7 September 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
The team responsible for keeping production systems running is often one of the least visible within IT: a hundred developers for just a handful of operations specialists is a common ratio. And there is a reason for that, their job is to make sure nothing happens. A team that performs perfectly generates no incidents, no alerts, and therefore no obvious reason for additional budget.<\/p>\n
The cost of underinvestment, however, can materialize all at once: an outage on a Tuesday morning, a contractual penalty, or a missed regulatory deadline. So what does that actually cost?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Key takeaways<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> Every minute of downtime has a cost:<\/strong> cut downtime in half, and you cut the associated costs in half.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li> Most outages are preventable:<\/strong> 87% could have been avoided through better processes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li> Costs can be controlled:<\/strong> with DROPS<\/a>, you can act directly on failure rates, traceability, and rollback.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div> Three benchmark studies, three different methodologies, and broadly consistent orders of magnitude.<\/p>\n1. How much does one hour of downtime cost?<\/h2>\n
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