'Skipping A Beat On Resilience Investment Isn'T An Option Any More' As IT Outage Costs Soar
ITPro, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Organizations are ramping up resilience efforts at IT outage costs continue mounting
IT disruption is costing UK businesses a fortune, with nearly two-thirds losing more than $300,000 per hour.
The figure for the UK and Ireland is about 65% - slightly below the 68% reported globally, but still representing a critical financial risk; and one that executives are taking seriously.
According to PagerDuty's State of AI-First Operations report, top leaders are nearly unanimous (95%) that faster incident recovery and fewer major incidents create competitive advantage.