Talk about scary. You can’t even see the electrical anomalies transmitted right into your data center — the sags, surges, spikes, line noise, frequency variation and harmonic distortions — but the unseen can be phenomenally costly to business.
According to recent statistics from the U.S. Department of Energy, here are the price tags related to a single power outage in a typical data center: 33 percent of companies lose $20,000 to $500,000 when power is disrupted; 20 percent lose from $500,000 to $2 million, and 15 percent lose more than $2 million when an outage occurs.