Power Protection

This weekend’s weather activity created many alerts on our systems. Over 25% of Digital Foundation’s clients were affected. Problems ranged from extended power outages to dropped Internet connections. It is pleasing to say that everyone recovered as soon as their services were restored.
Although we cannot stop power outages and lost internet connections, there are measures we can take together to make things run more smoothly. Every server that Digital Foundation maintains has a battery backup. Typically, the minimum sized battery provides about 40 minutes of runtime when the electricity goes out.
As you consider how future power outages may affect your business, please let us know if you require a longer runtime for your servers or other important computer equipment so that we can install the necessary battery backups.
In general, we install a $450 battery backup on the server (this provides 40 minutes of backup power) and a $60 battery backup on each important workstation, providing about 5 to 10 minutes. Most server battery backups are expandable where additional batteries can be connected to double runtime (you can attach up to 10 battery expansions!)
As a rule of thumb, we recommend batteries to be installed on all accounting PCs to ensure the accounting data never gets corrupted and complex tasks such as check and invoices batches to not get interrupted.
Digital Foundation sells both High Quality Surge Suppressors and Battery Backups. If you feel that you need any additional power condition equipment visit: http://www.digitalfoundation.net/.