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A recent news article Amazon's Cloud Crash Disaster Permanently Destroyed Many Customers' Data Read more Showed us how thousands of accounts were destroyed because of DATA LOSS. DID YOU KNOW that the primary cause of data loss is POWER OUTAGE?

    FACTS
  • Michigan led all states with 71 major weather-related power outages between 2003 and 2012, averaging at least 800,000 customers affected each year during that decade. With even $20 per customer, ie. 12-1500 INR average, its almost, 120 00 00 000, 120Cr!! Texas ranked second with 57 outages and also averaged more than 800,000 customers affected annually. Ohio was third with 54, followed by Pennsylvania and Virginia with 52. The number of customers affected could not be estimated for these three states.
  • 147 million customers lost power, for at least an hour and often far longer, from weather-related outages since 2003, an average of 15 million customers affected each year. Currently, there are 145 million customers in the U.S. A customer is a home or a business, or anyone who receives a bill from a utility, so the number of people affected by outages is likely much higher, from 300 million to perhaps half a billion or more over the decade analyzed.
  • 59 percent of weather-related outages analyzed were caused by storms and severe weather; nearly 19 percent by cold weather and ice storms; 18 percent by hurricanes and tropical storms; 3 percent tornadoes, and 2 percent by a combination of extreme heat events and wildfires.
  • In a country like the United States, the situation is this bad, can you imagine what would happen here?

TIME IS MONEY. A power outage which damages your busines cycle is potentially damaging your time and thereby, MONEY!