Long-term (hours+) solution for power outage: PBX, lights, and computers

[Ben Scott]

On 9/1/06, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
> They make money by printing pieces of paper and putting them in FedEx
> envelopes.

  How much money per unit of product (envelope, sheet of paper, whatever)?

  How many envelopes do they generate per unit of time?

  Once you have those numbers, you know your downtime cost per unit of time.

  You apparently have some history on power reliability.  From that
data, you can generate a downtime cost schedule, showing the cost for
an outage of a given duration, along with the likelihood of such an
outage.

  Every possible solution -- including relocating the office -- has a cost.

  Compare solution costs to the downtime cost schedule.

  I suspect the numbers will indicate the current solution (i.e.,
none) makes the most business sense.

-- Ben