BTECH - Executive Summary

Executive Summary

Overview

The prestigious Berkeley Lab recently concluded $80 billion is lost every year to power disturbances. Motivation for this first time study resulted from the impacts of the 2003 major blackout in the Northeast. The conclusion was unexpected; momentary interruptions that are frequent, account for 66% of the total cost while sustained interruptions of more than 5 minutes account for the balance.¹

Executives know the hard costs of corrupted data, network interruptions and infrastructure blackouts. The Berkeley study identifies common everyday power anomalies as a major cause of those costs. At BTECH, we have been solving this problem for major data centers, vital military facilities and high visibility government agencies for more than 17 years. Click to see our customer list.

Problem:

Corporate executives face the daunting task of assuring the business is taking all steps possible to comply with diverse regulatory standards and regulations. Near the top of most lists are the needs to protect data integrity, to assure constant access to data and to eliminate any breaks in data.² Common among the many digital elements required to achieve compliance success is the need for resilient electric power. To assure electric power is available under all conditions, capital dollars are expended for backup power systems. Without BTECH Predictive Technology you have no assurance the backup power investment will work each time required; during everyday power anomalies or longer power outages.³

Analysis:

Every anomoly or outage in utility power has the potential to instantly corrupt the processes that our economy depends on daily. The average organization receives 289 of these power disturbances annually. This translates to an opportunity to fail more than once every day of the year.⁴

With every power disruption the lead acid battery, the heart of your power backup systems, supply power to ensure business continuity. Failure of any link within the power chain has the potential to corrupt data, interrupt networks and bring business to a halt. In fact, 85% of all backup power system failures are battery related. Fortunately, the direct cost impacts, indirect costs of a tarnished corporate image and potential regulatory exposure are avoidable.

Solution:

Our digital society depends continuously on the lead acid battery. Your business depends on many perhaps hundreds or thousands to supply vital power. However one weak or defective battery in a system can cause the entire system to fail.⁵ BTECH's patented predictive technology solves this problem by identifying the problem batteries before they fail. They are replaced and the downtime avoided.

Footnotes:

Berkeley Lab Study: http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/EETD-power-interruptions.html
Information technology: justifying the investment: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4070/is_2003_June/ai_103192730
Planning for High Availability: Attempt to Eliminate Downtime: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/High-Availability-Eliminate-Downtime.html
Sandia National Laboratories: Review of Power Quality Applications of Energy Storage Systems: http://www.prod.sandia.gov/cgi-bin/techlib/access-control.pl/1998/981513.pdf
Data Center News: Will bad batteries be your undoing? http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1095803,00.html