Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 05 | Page 82

FINAL WORD APPLICATION DOWNTIME COSTING MILLIONS FOR ENTERPRISES New research from Veeam Software, and, in its fifth year, the Veeam Availability Report, 2016, reveals that 84%, a 2% increase on 2014, of senior IT decisionsmakers (ITDMs) across the globe admit to suffering an ‘Availability Gap’ (the gap between what IT can deliver and what users demand). 82 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com