How much does a minute of downtime actually cost your business? 

According to Gartner, for large enterprises, that number sits between $5,600 and $9,000 per minute. And when systems fail, the clock ticks loudly. The Recovery by design report by Cirata dives deep into why we need to shift from resilience as an aspiration to recoverability as a concrete capability. This report challenges how many of us think about resilience. It’s not just about having a backup plan on a shelf; it’s about treating recoverability as an active, engineered capability. 

The most resilient organizations we studied share a common trait, they don't treat recovery as solely an IT problem. They treat it as a cross-functional responsibility where data, infrastructure, and security teams work in lockstep. 

Key statistics and what you can find in this report include:

– The estimated average cost of a data breach.

– The estimated hourly cost of an outage.

– The longer it takes to regain trusted operations, the more the business impact multiplies.

– Teams will delay go-live or customer-facing operations if they aren’t sure which datasets or credentials remain intact.

– The real economic impact of modern infrastructure failures

– Practical priorities for strengthening your recovery posture today