ADVISORY/How to Avoid Downtime During Summer Blackouts; Expert in Building and Operating Critical Facilities Available for Interviews.Business & Lifestyle Editors/Multimedia Writers ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) This summer's power shortages are exposing just one of the low-tech ways the lights can suddenly turn out on e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. . The digital economy may be virtual, but the hardware that drives it is in old-world buildings with outmoded out·mod·ed adj. 1. Not in fashion; unfashionable: outmoded attire; outmoded ideas. 2. No longer usable or practical; obsolete: outmoded machinery. mechanical systems and vulnerable power sources. With today's 24/7 operating hours, downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. doesn't just inconvenience a business, it can ruin it. Forward-thinking companies and property owners are looking at all the ways to ensure greater reliability in their operations so they always stay connected to customers. Ann ANN, Scotch law. Half a year's stipend over and above what is owing for the incumbency due to a minister's relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease. Wishaw. Also, an abbreviation of annus, year; also of annates. In the old law French writers, ann or rather an, signifies a year. Banning-Wright is managing director for OnlineEnvironments (www.onlineenvironments.com), which designs, builds, engineers and operates "critical facilities" including data centers, telecom hotels, banking hubs, telephone network operations and customer-service centers that require uninterrupted uptime. Banning-Wright can discuss the unseen potential for downtime that lurks in the walls, ceilings, power sources, security, maintenance systems and undertrained staffs of the typical online enterprise -- and, most important, what to do about it right now. To contact Banning-Wright, call her direct at OnlineEnvironments' Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. office, 310/312-0200, or contact Francie Murphy of Francie Murphy Associates at 310/670-8600. |
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