Power outages aren’t as commonplace as they once were.
Of course, that won’t be much consolation to you if you lose your power during the middle of the day and are unable to continue working until it’s restored.
So, what can you do to try and mitigate the effects of a problem arising from adverse weather conditions or someone digging through the main power supply cable in your local area?
Uninterrupted Power Supply
For a surprisingly modest cost, you can purchase battery standby systems that will generate up to a specified number of hours’ worth of electricity to keep your IT systems functioning in the event of a problem.
Cut over to the UPS can be almost instantaneous and automatic and you should be able to continue your work without significant interruption.
Standby generators
The UPS can also be enhanced by having things such as ancillary diesel generators around if you are really trying to protect yourself against extended outages.
Of course, this will increase the cost of your contingency arrangements over and above a basic UPS.
Using laptops and tablets
One of the big advantages of these devices is that they are entirely independent of mains power supplies, at least for a maximum number of battery hours.
That though won’t be of much help if you have your critical corporate data sitting on a central network supported by larger file servers.
Laptops, handheld devices and the Cloud
If you design and build your IT infrastructure around laptops and the storage of your corporate data on the Cloud then you may insulate yourself a little further from certain types of power outage.
If this doesn’t mean anything to you, please contact Server Sentry and we will arrange for one of our IT technical consultants to explain this approach in more detail
It may change your perception of the potential IT solutions open to you.
Of course, that won’t be much consolation to you if you lose your power during the middle of the day and are unable to continue working until it’s restored.
So, what can you do to try and mitigate the effects of a problem arising from adverse weather conditions or someone digging through the main power supply cable in your local area?
Uninterrupted Power Supply
For a surprisingly modest cost, you can purchase battery standby systems that will generate up to a specified number of hours’ worth of electricity to keep your IT systems functioning in the event of a problem.
Cut over to the UPS can be almost instantaneous and automatic and you should be able to continue your work without significant interruption.
Standby generators
The UPS can also be enhanced by having things such as ancillary diesel generators around if you are really trying to protect yourself against extended outages.
Of course, this will increase the cost of your contingency arrangements over and above a basic UPS.
Using laptops and tablets
One of the big advantages of these devices is that they are entirely independent of mains power supplies, at least for a maximum number of battery hours.
That though won’t be of much help if you have your critical corporate data sitting on a central network supported by larger file servers.
Laptops, handheld devices and the Cloud
If you design and build your IT infrastructure around laptops and the storage of your corporate data on the Cloud then you may insulate yourself a little further from certain types of power outage.
If this doesn’t mean anything to you, please contact Server Sentry and we will arrange for one of our IT technical consultants to explain this approach in more detail
It may change your perception of the potential IT solutions open to you.
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