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Every business takes steps to protect themselves against damage. For instance, every building is equipped with smoke detectors and fire suppression systems and extinguishers. Purchasing business insurance to help recover from damages is a must as well. Damage to your building can come from a lot more than fire and smoke, however. Yes, insurance will […]

Different regions around the world have seen some extreme weather recently, which can severely impact businesses. When extreme weather hits, it’s important to have a business continuity plan in place in the event your organization needs to close for any amount of time. Environment monitoring should be a key part of that plan, as weather […]

Discussing a heat wave in the middle of February feels a bit off for those of us in many areas of the world, but that’s the reality for everyone in Australia right now. Record setting temperatures are anticipated to hit that continent over the coming days, and extreme heat brings the opportunity for data and […]

Data centers are heavily guarded against intrusion and network data loss. Cyber-attacks and cybercrime remain among the top reasons for data center outages, and data center owners as well as businesses that operate their own data center have multiple safeguards in place to protect them. Unplanned data center outages come from many sources, however. Environment […]

To help kick off a strong and successful 2017 for our customers and resellers, we wanted to bring back one of our most popular promotions: the ‘Buy Three, Get One Free‘ offer on the Room Alert 3E! The Room Alert 3E has long been one of our most popular environment monitors. It’s low cost, small […]

Businesses often protect themselves against smoke and fire damage by installing and maintaining smoke detectors and fire suppression systems. What many businesses don’t protect against is water damage. In fact, properties are 10 times more likely to suffer from water damage than they are from fire damage. Water damage can come from a variety of […]

It’s a wet time of year for a lot of regions, and it’s going to remain that way for quite some time. The western United States are seeing record rain amounts causing damaging flooding over a wide area.  Here in the northeastern United States, we’ve been hit with snow, high winds, and heavy rain all […]

This is the time in every new year when individuals and businesses across the globe make New Year’s resolutions, in hopes of improving over last year. Thankfully a good number of companies are making the implementation of a business continuity plan a top priority to help protect them in the event of a major outage. […]

In a few past installments, we’ve looked at how we’ve used Room Alert and RoomAlert.com here at AVTECH to monitor our own facilities. Thankfully alerts have let us know when we’ve experienced environment issues in our own datacenter as well as within our building. In fact, some of those instances have led to improvements and […]

We’re right at that time of year when many businesses either shut down for the holidays, or have a skeleton crew manning the office or warehouse. We’re also at the time of year when weather conditions turn much worse for most of the world; cold snaps, snow, and ice all can wreak havoc on an […]