Company: ABL Electronics
City: San Rafael
Country: USA
url: http://www.ablcables.com
When APC began selling power protection equipment,networking was in its infancy. Most computer users were stilltransferring data on the 'sneaker net' using 512k floppy disks. Asnetworking began to evolve, users began to use linked PCs to sharefiles and print documents, which gradually increased the importance ofthe computers and equipment upon which these tasks were transacted.Still, the number of people protecting the hardware and data with UPSswas small.
Initially, the motivation for using APC's products was to protect thehardware itself. As more and more data was passed across networks, ourcustomers began recognizing the importance and value of the data ontheir servers and PCs; they quickly began protecting this data as well.As the value of data grew exponentially, the importance of protectingthe availability of the network reached critical mass. A growing numberof customers cannot tolerate any downtime in their networks.
In the last few years, the value of the data being created, transferredand stored has continued to multiply. Not only is the quantity of dataincreasing, but E-commerce applications are literally transferring,processing and storing money on the servers we protect. As a result,highly reliable solutions like our Power Array technology are beingadopted by industry-leading global enterprises to ensure E-commercedelivers on its promise.
In 1984, when we built our first UPS, I don't think anyone at APC couldhave imagined a better scenario for the Company than what we are seeingtoday. Data has become money, and it is flying around the globe,without bounds, at an incredible rate of speed. As a company we couldnot have hoped for a better business opportunity than one in whichnetwork downtime correlates to a loss of revenue.
