Don’t Let Power Cuts Power Down Your Business

Think your business is immune to power cuts? Think again!

Think your business is immune to power cuts? Think again! Unexpected outages can strike at any time, disrupting workflows, causing data loss, and ultimately impacting your bottom line. A quick visit to the UK Power Networks website shows a constant dance with disruptions happening all around us.

But what if you could eliminate this threat entirely?

At Datanet, we offer a data centre solution with guaranteed and resilient power, cooling, and bandwidth. This means your critical workloads and applications stay up and running, no matter what Mother Nature throws your way.

So what can you do to help yourself when your office loses power?

  • Your emergency lighting should come on to allow safe exit for your staff, make sure you test it periodically
  • Establish if it is just your building or the whole street that is out. It is easy to do this at night time as you can easily see if the whole street is out. If the whole street is out then call your electricity supplier or check their web site for a status update. If it is just you that’s out then get an electrician (or competent person) to check your fuse box and circuit breakers
  • Send your staff home or to the local coffee shop where they can log on to local wifi and at least deal with emails and keep in touch with customers
  • Divert your phone system to a mobile or working landline and post a status on your web site
  • Make sure your internal servers/systems at least have a local UPS so you can power them down gracefully
  • Identify your most critical applications and workloads and move them to your friendly local data centre!!
  • If you are a Datanet customer then your applications and data will continue to run and you are welcome to use one of our meeting rooms so you can carry on business as usual

If you want to have a chat about some great colocation and hosting offers for local business then contact is today.

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