Let's run through a common scenario many\u00a0businesses might face during typical power outages.<\/p>\n
You walk into work\u00a0today and unfortunately there\u2019s no power in the building. The phones are dead, office refrigerator becomes a free-for-all, and the internet has gone kaput.\u00a0Essentially, your business either becomes crippled or worse, completely shut down.<\/p>\n
Sound familiar? Here's the twist.<\/p>\n
All is not lost. You decide to\u00a0take your motley crew of co-workers to the nearest working WiFi hotspot. Buy a round of coffee for everyone and mooch off the free internet there while booting up\u00a0your laptops. Phones\u00a0get forwarded. Emails addressed. Communication lines begin\u00a0to\u00a0naturally open up with clients. And most importantly all your critical business applications are accessible.<\/p>\n
Business continues to run smoothly\u00a0and no one will ever be the wiser to know that you weren't even in the office that day.<\/p>\n
This situation sounds like a dream, but it's\u00a0actually quite\u00a0feasible\u00a0due to the nature\u00a0of cloud technology.<\/p>\n
Many of your favorite quintessential business applications needed for\u00a0projects or\u00a0tasks\u00a0can be hosted online in data centers that virtually<\/em> (pun intended) never go down.<\/p>\n As long as you have an internet connection, you can securely access these applications as well as your data as if nothing was out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n Data centers provide redundancy, backups<\/a>, and failovers to\u00a0protect your data from natural disasters to the most cunning\u00a0hacking attempts. There are\u00a0ample locations\u00a0of\u00a0data centers\u00a0<\/a>ranging from the\u00a0west coast stretching all across to\u00a0the\u00a0east coast. Even globally as well, from Seattle, Washington to Hong Kong, China, there's no shortage of server farms.<\/p>\n Deploying\u00a0a cloud infrastructure\u00a0makes it so you don\u2019t even need to be in the office to function in the first place. Not only do you gain\u00a0convenient access to your data or business applications\u00a0anywhere at any time, other\u00a0additional benefits include:<\/p>\n The basics of sudden power outages\u00a0incur\u00a0very little chance of physically harming\u00a0your computer's hard\u00a0drives. What likely happens is that your\u00a0computers suddenly becomes\u00a0interrupted while in the middle of writing or modifying a file. When the\u00a0power goes out, your computer becomes\u00a0unable to complete\u00a0whatever\u00a0action it was doing. This is one of the main\u00a0reasons why people lose large amounts of data.<\/p>\n Imagine working on an important project, when all of a sudden, initial\u00a0flickering occurs (also known as a brownout). Just when you think you're safe...poof\u00a0goes the power.<\/p>\n Even for a microsecond,\u00a0that sudden instance of power loss is enough to lose important hours on a large project or task. The data doesn't simply vanish\u00a0either. This is caused from the surge of disruption that happens in the\u00a0middle of modifying the\u00a0file.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re the type of worker that takes the \u201cCtrl-S\u201d approach to saving your work every few\u00a0minutes, you might have only lost a few changes. However, what can truly\u00a0devastate your files\u00a0happens exactly<\/em> the moment <\/em>the\u00a0power goes out. While\u00a0in the midst of saving, files\u00a0could get\u00a0jammed with bits\u00a0of the old and the new versions. That process\u00a0corrupts the file and can\u00a0potentially cause an incoming series of selective<\/em> words directed at your poor computer.<\/p>\n Power outages will<\/em> happen occasionally. Instead of wasting time and resources\u00a0doing nothing, what if you had the cloud supporting you? Now\u00a0every\u00a0outage becomes\u00a0an\u00a0opportunity to showcase\u00a0your organization's image. Maybe even use it as\u00a0a chance for team building exercises!<\/p>\n\n
What about the physical damage from power outages?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Turning a negative into a positive<\/h2>\n
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