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Corporate Technologies Releases New Research on the True Cost of IT Downtime for U.S. Small Businesses
Corporate Technologies' whitepaper shows SMBs face up to $10,000 hourly losses from downtime, urging a shift to proactive IT management to mitigate risks and costs.
- From Prairie, Minn., the firm published 'The Cost of IT Downtime for Small Businesses in the U.S.', which reports that SMBs can lose up to $10,000 per hour during outages.
- Outdated break-fix IT models and under-resourced environments drive the report, showing reactive break-fix IT approaches increase risk and costs for small and mid-sized businesses.
- The whitepaper quantifies hourly losses, finding even brief outages cause five-figure losses and SMBs can lose up to $10,000 per hour, based on industry data and thousands of SMB users.
- The whitepaper outlines a practical framework—monitoring, patching, backup testing and cybersecurity controls—to help SMBs adopt proactive IT management, reducing downtime and stabilizing costs.
- Amid rising ransomware targeting of SMBs, the report warns they face most ransomware incidents and downtime adds idle payroll, reputational damage, and regulatory risk, elevating business exposure.
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Corporate Technologies Releases New Research on the True Cost of IT Downtime for U.S. Small Businesses
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Corporate Technologies, a leading managed IT and cybersecurity provider for small and mid-sized businesses, has released a new research whitepaper titled "The Cost of IT Downtime for Small Businesses in the U.S."…
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