If you haven't yet taken action to protect your business, now's the time to get started. That means implementing a source of back-up power in the event of blackout or brownout. Multiple solutions are available which, at a minimum, offer enough electricity to allow for a graceful shutdown of IT and telephony systems, thereby preventing a potentially catastrophic loss of data. The more ambitious solutions can keep your business powered up for weeks, if not months. As Tim Jones points out in this month's roundup, UPS products are better than ever.
Most units feature more powerful batteries than in years past, allowing for extended system uptime.
Many products, too, are increasingly leveraging the Internet and the Web to allow for remote monitoring. And numerous UPSs are optimized for power corrected devices, such as computer power supplies, that use energy more efficiently by equalizing volt-amp and watt ratings.