The Majority Of Businesses Couldn't Survive Three Days Of Downtime
ITPro, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
IT outages have a disastrous impact on enterprise productivity and finances
Most businesses would fall apart after three days of total downtime, according to Veeam, and executives are woefully unprepared for AI-driven risks.
According to its latest Data Resilience survey of more than 4,000 C-Suite and senior IT leaders, Veeam said data outages are now a bigger concern than the threat of a recession.
More than eight-in-ten organizations have experienced outages that weren't resolved immediately in the past five years. External cyber attacks were the most widespread cause, at 26%, closely followed by human error at 23% and system or hardware failure at 16%.