Data center downtime costs companies significant amounts of money. On average, Fortune 500 companies experience 1.6+ hours of downtime per week, costing $896,000 just in labor costs. The total annual cost of data center downtime for the average company is over $7.9 million per year in labor costs alone. Downtime costs have increased 41% from $5,600 per minute in 2010. With average uptime of 99.9%, companies still experience almost an hour of downtime per week.