Availability Index Calculator

The Availability Index Calculator will help you understand your company's likelihood of business process* downtime due to power. The calculator will indicate your power availability risks, the effectiveness of your existing power protection strategy and suggest next steps to improve your company's power availability. It should take less than 5 minutes to complete the 20 questions and review your results.

* A business process is a process that starts with a customer or key stakeholder and ends with a measurable dollar stream. Some examples are E-commerce, Customer Acquisition, and Product Development.

Power Availability Risk Factors

1. Does your business experience frequent lightning strikes? (click here to see US Lightning Map)
Yes  No

2. Is your business located in an area with severe weather events, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, snow/ice/hail storms?
Yes  No

3. Is there currently any construction near your building?
Yes  No

4. Is the wiring to your building above ground?
Yes  No

5. Do you have heavy equipment operating within your building?
Yes  No

6. Is there currently any construction within your building?
Yes  No

7. Is the wiring in your building over 20 years old?
Yes  No

8. Does your network infrastucture meet the IEEE performance wiring standard?
Yes  No

9. When your business experiences downtime, is more than 50% of your revenue unrecoverable?
Yes  No

10. When your business experiences downtime, is more than 50% of your employee's time wasted?
Yes  No


Power Availability Strategy

11. Do you have critical business processes that must remain available 7x24x365?
Yes  No

12. Is your company investing or planning to invest in solutions to achieve business process availability with respect to power?
Yes  No


Do you have UPS protection deployed on the following IT components?

13. Servers
Yes  No

14. PCs
Yes  No

15. Internetworking Devices
Yes  No

16. Mainframes
Yes  No

17. Phone Systems
Yes  No


18. Are you utilizing redundant and/or fault tolerant UPS protection within your business?

Yes  No

19. Is your building power supported by a generator?
Yes  No

20. Are you currently managing your power protection devices (via SNMP, web, other)?
Yes  No

Thank you for taking your valuable time to complete the APC Availability Index Calculator.

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