Back-Up Power Key To Weathering Outages

For small businesses, power outages can be disastrous if they are not prepared. Technologies that make it easy to quickly transfer to back-up sources can keep small companies in a struggling economy not only out of the dark but also, quite possibly, out of the red.

Unfortunately, not all businesses — especially small ones — have prepared themselves for outages. In fact, a 2008 survey of 451 U.S. small businesses commissioned by Emerson Network Power showed that 61 percent do not have back-up power supplies.

Back-up power is an important element of any business-continuity plan. Most small businesses with a business-continuity plan have back-up power supplies (62 percent), while just 29 percent of small businesses without a plan have back-up power.

Emerson Network Power, the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, provides back-up power solutions to meet the needs of every size business.

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