Lenovo? x86 Servers achieve highest percentage of 99.999% overall uptime and availability

The latest ITIC 2016 – 2017 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability survey finds that 72% of organizations now require a minimum of “four nines” or 99.99% reliability and uptime. That is the equivalent of 52 minutes of unplanned per server / per annum downtime or 4.33 minutes per month. Additionally, 24% of businesses now demand even greater – 99.999% availability -- which equates to 5.25 minutes of unplanned annual downtime or a scant “blink and you miss it” 43.7 seconds per month for their mission critical servers and main line of business applications.

A 79% majority of IBM Power servers and 68% Lenovo System x servers achieved “five nines” or 99.999% availability – the equivalent of 5.25 minutes of unplanned per server downtime compared to 35% of HPE servers; 33% of Dell hardware and 27% of Oracle server equipment.