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What is fiveIX.com?
five IX refers to the technology term 5 ‘nines’ [99.999%] providing a level of up-time and being used as the definition for high availability. To put this in perspective for a moment:-
In today’s world, keeping IT systems and networks up and running is more important than ever before. How much downtime is acceptable? 99%? 99.9%? How many 9’s? The answer may surprise you.
| If systems are up… | Then yearly downtime is… | |
| 90% | 876 hours | |
| 99% | 87 hours, 36 minutes | |
| 99.9% | 8 hours, 45.5 minutes | |
| 99.99% | 52 minutes, 33 seconds | |
| 99.999% | 5 minutes, 15 seconds | |
So while 99% uptime sounds good, the reality is that IT would be down 1.7 hours per week!
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