In this era of instant electronic transactions, computers are the lifeblood of many operations. In fact, one bank that is a major credit card transaction processor estimates that it loses $6 million for every hour of downtime. So when the power goes out, millions in revenue can go down the drain.
That bank µ First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO), Omaha, NB, one of the largest privately owned banks in the country µ suffered a 1997 brownout that seriously disrupted its operations. Although the bank’s data center went down for just minutes, it took hours to recover and get back to normal.