Global 2000 companies face $600 billion annual cost from unplanned downtime, Splunk study finds
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A new Splunk study (in partnership with Oxford Economics) reveals that unplanned downtime for Global 2000 companies now costs $600 billion annually — a 50% increase in just two years. The report highlights that downtime has become a systemic business crisis with immediate, severe, and potentially long-lasting financial impacts. South African enterprises face additional pressure from regulatory and ransomware threats.
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For South African enterprises, the regulatory and ransomware pressure points are sharpening.
The financial toll of an outage is immediate, severe, and potentially long-lasting.
Downtime has become a systemic business crisis.
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