What is uninterruptible power supply?
Imagine a beautiful warm summer afternoon. There’s a breeze in the air and you’re looking forward to checking out for the day. But as you get nearer to the close of business, the wind changes. It’s getting cooler and you realise a southerly is approaching. In the distance lightning is moving towards the coastline and as it travels inland a sharp crack strikes nearby, causing a power outage.
What will happen to your IT systems? Will they still be running, allowing your business to continue? Or will it be a complete black out for both the electricity and your operations?
As a small to medium sized business any downtime where you are not able to generate revenue can be debilitating to your finances. In fact, every year, power disruptions cause billions of dollars of lost revenue.
And it’s not just lightning storms that can interrupt your power supply - other weather conditions such as flooding or high winds can affect it; but also, equipment failure and traffic accidents.
Installing an UPS – Uninterrupted Power Supply - can protect you from this kind of crisis. If extreme weather conditions disconnect your electricity, even momentarily, or there is a surge, the UPS will immediately kick in, providing a new and constant energy supply. You can have peace of mind knowing that your equipment, systems and even your NBN connection box have guaranteed protection against any outage.
APC, part of Schneider Electric, have the most popular UPS products on the market and we at Shire IT have partnered with them to provide our clients with a high-quality range of systems. Whether you only have computers and networks or more complex servers and data centres we can work with you to find an UPS solution to suit your business needs.
Plus, with SmartConnect, Shire IT can remotely monitor any interruptions to your power supply, allowing you to keep your business moving, even when the lights are off outside.
See how we can support your system infrastructures, give Shire IT a call on 1300 744 734.
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