Power and network connectivity are important

Man, we lose both power and the network and we might as well be sitting on our hands at work. Strangest 40 minutes ever.

That got me thinking about battery backups. Nice thing to have, especially when people are working on mission critical stuff and need that 5 minute window to hastily save everything and shutdown the safe way so vast amounts of work aren't lost. Especially when the building you work in is 30 years old and has over 300 high end machine taxing its already limited electrical system. But, barring a massive investment in renovations that will shut down or at least hamper my division, battery backups are the way to the future!