Downtime

In investment banking, a slang term for a situation in which a bank employee does not have much to do, especially if he/she is waiting for superiors to give further directions. An employee may spend downtime working on personal matters, or he/she may simply avoid work altogether.

downtime

time when a machine or COMPUTER is not operating correctly owing to machine failure or because the machine is being set up for the next work task (SET-UP TIME). Downtime in a factory can cause considerable loss of output and disruption to production schedules, and the aim of PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE is to minimize such downtime. See IDLE TIME.

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Groucutt stresses having a complete picture of what IT downtime costs your organisation enables you to make better-informed decisions on issues relating to IT resilience, supplier management and continuity planning: "There are several types of indirect costs that need to be considered when estimating the financial impact of an outage to your organisation..

Businesses are getting on top of IT downtime costs, reveals new data from Databarracks

Once your are in Downtime your lock screen will have a permanent notification on it which reads: Screen time will be limited until [your chosen time].

New feature shows you how much time you spend on your iPhone; The latest Apple update allows you to monitor and cut back on your Iphone or Ipad usage

In conclusion, I would like to say that yes, Screen Time did help me switch off from my digital world, at least during my pre-decided downtime. I also like the fact that the app notifies me 5 minutes before my phone's downtime begins as well as when my set Screen Time for a particular app is about to end.

Here's what living with Apple's Screen Time feature made me realise

What does preventative maintenance mean for downtime?

A world without downtime

This downtime occurs more than once a month on average, costing organisations up to $16mn annually in lost revenue (not to mention the decreased productivity and missed opportunities).

Ways to ensure business continuity

> Data loss and downtime costs enterprises in the UAE 2.8 billion

UAE firms rank low in data protection

- Unplanned application downtime occurs more than once per month (13 times per year).

Firms failing to meet need for 'always-on' IT services

- Downtime and deferred production loss estimations

Fielding Systems Releases Advanced Downtime Tracking Capability

Once an SME has answered questions around what the maximum amount of downtime is acceptable, the effect of a data failure and the costs that can be saved by implementing data protection, it will have an understanding of the risks facing an IT project, the benefits data protection will provide, and the level of performance it needs.

Putting data protection in its place for SMEs

Most respondents estimated the cost of one hour's downtime at between $250,000 and $500,000, but one in six of those polled by Globalscape said that $1m was a realistic figure.

IT outages could cost $1m an hour

EMC has announced results of 'The Disaster Recovery Survey 2012: Middle East, Turkey and Morocco', which found that 82% of companies surveyed in the region are not very confident that they can fully recover systems or data in the event of a disaster, and that 64% of all organisations lost data or suffered systems downtime in the last 12 months.

Middle East enterprise lack disaster recovery plans, finds EMC study