Blackouts and Power Outages on the rise!

Posted by admin on August 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

As we have traveled around North America for years in the Enterprise Data Storage Space, redundancy has been one of the most under used words. High Availability, Mission Critical, Redundant, Data Protection, Disaster Prevention, Efficiency…………….

Ever thought about this in the Power Space? What does any of this mean if your batteries in the UPS are not fully charged and ready to take the load it needs to keep your infrastructure fully available while the generator kicks on and produces what it needs to maintain power availability during an outage?

What if you experience a grid outage or city wide power failure like there was in DC just a few weeks ago due to the weather? Lightening, Heat, Deep Cold temps: ALL factors in the ability to sustain power utility to your Mission Critical environment.

In a disaster: Can my employees get through the electric door locks, can I keep security cameras up and running, can I keep critical devices powered, What about my computer systems??????? All it takes is 1 spike and my systems reboot. I need to not only maintain enough battery load until my generator comes on, but I need to filter my generator as well.

CNN reports today that Power Outages are on the rise: Is this enough to ask for capital spend?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/08/09/smart.grid/index.html?hpt=C1

Critical Power Sys can help you: Renew Service Contracts on any UPS Vendor, Battery Monitoring, Replace Batteries for any UPS vendor and can help you identify the appropriate sized UPS ( small rackmount or large three-phase ). We are helping deliver PSG, ATS, SPD (Surge Protection) and UPSs.