Australia has its fair share of thunderstorms but did you know that if your office is not properly fitted or wired, an unfortunate power surge could damage your computers?

A few years ago, I was called to an educational institute to implement a disaster recovery plan for they had just experienced a severe thunderstorm the night before and a surge of power had damaged a few floors of networked computers. The surge wasn’t through the power plugs but it was through the network cables!

It was a sad sight but moreover, it was sad to get the management team to plan for business continuity After a disaster. Fortunately their servers were protected but they didn’t implement surge protection for the network devices. What were all those students going to work on during lectures? How long would it take to replace and configure the damaged computers? How much will it cost to replace the equipment and implement protection for the future?

Those are terrible questions to have to face and I felt sorry for the IT staff at that institute. We can only advice you to spend and invest in suitable surge protection. Bigger companies shouldn’t be thrifty about this! APC is a leading brand of UPS devices and if you don’t have one, this is a start! Certainly there are a whole range of vendors but we like to deal with the best, and APC would be our recommendation.

Contact us if you need some advice or if you haven’t got a Business Continuity Plan in place. Hopefully you will never have to use it, but if you do, it can save you thousands of $$$!