Livingston Communications just released an IT Ops Research Report today that shows six out of 10 companies view applications changes as a leading cause of downtime. Other interesting facts:
Downtime ranked as the top IT operations challenge, with 51% of large enterprises (10,000 or more employees) selecting minimizing downtime as a top three concern in managing multi-tier applications.
The survey revealed that the average company experiences roughly 15 incidents of downtime per year.
From an industry perspective, computer-related companies (18.4) and healthcare/pharmaceutical companies (17.1) reported the most number of downtime incidents.