Power Protection FEATURED ARTICLE

It may be a company’s worst nightmare but the fact remains that downtime can strike at any time, and many times without warning.

One company that has experienced a few run-ins with the big bad downtime wolf these past few years is Amazon Web Services (News - Alert). For example, earlier this year the company experienced an extended outage which caused downtime for many services that use Amazon’s cloud to run their Web services. Specifically, the sites knocked offline by Amazon’s problems included social media hub Reddit, the HootSuite link-sharing tool, the popular question-and-answer service Quora, and even a Facebook app for Microsoft (News - Alert).

Last week, Amazon Web Services Vice President Adam Selipsky talked about the past failures by stating, “We take any downtime incredibly seriously. People are running mission-critical applications on us, be it Netflix or the Federal Government. We have to be available and we have to be secure. We’re trying to be transparent about incidents and publicize what is happening as much as possible.”

According to Selipsky, Netflix has its streaming service built on top of the Amazon cloud and because Netflix is built with to withstand some AWS downtime, it was able to keep running even when Amazon went down in high-profile instances that crippled other sites.

“Netflix is wonderfully architected,” Selipsky said. “They came through the instance of downtime very well.”

Another company poised to help others get through instances of downtime “very well” is Minuteman UPS/Para Systems (News - Alert), a leading provider of power protection products. Minuteman offers a line of Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) for computers, servers, peripherals, voice and data communication systems, security systems and other mission-critical equipment.

Minuteman’s power technology products are sold in more than 100 countries throughout the world and sold through a network of quality distributors.

Recently, Minuteman shed some light on why whether you have a small, medium, or large business phone system, it is still paramount to have in place suitable power protection technologies. Fortunately, Minuteman, a leading provider of power protection products, has your back when it comes to figuring out how to best safeguard your telephone systems.

“Minuteman offers a wide range of uninterruptible power supplies which will protect telephone systems from all power problems,” Duston Nixon, marketing communications specialist at Minuteman, told TMCnet. “These systems should be selected based on several factors, the foremost of those being the size of the electrical load and the runtime required.”