Data Center Resilience: Global Trends, Outages, and What’s Next

Outages are rising. Costs are climbing. AI is changing everything.

Opengear surveyed over 1,000 CIOs, CSOs, and network engineers across five countries to understand what’s really happening inside today’s data centers—and what’s coming next.

This exclusive research reveals why network disruptions are accelerating, how businesses are responding, and which technologies are quietly reshaping how modern infrastructure is managed.

In this report, you’ll learn:

• • The top causes of outages—and why they’re getting more frequent and more expensive
  • How much downtime is costing leading businesses (spoiler: millions per year)
  • Where AI, edge, and Out-of-Band (OOB) are gaining ground in real deployments
  • What skills and investments are shaping the data center of the future
    • 84% of CIOs and CSOs say outages have increased in the last two years
    • 35% report annual outage costs between $1M–$5M
    • AI, automation, and OOB are becoming core to network resilience

Get ahead of the next disruption.

Download the report to see how resilient, AI-ready organizations are rethinking data center strategy—and how you can do the same.