Here’s the long and short of it. Working on “live” electrical equipment in data centers exposes workers to potential death or disabling injury from arc flash, arc blast, or electric shock.
Ease of access to a fully recoverable production environment can mean the difference between emerging from a disaster at minimal cost and maximum speed, or picking up the pieces of your business and reputation.
While it can be argued that not every business needs to be fully operational 100% of the time, for public safety agencies that are in the “business” of serving the public and saving lives, the need to be on 24/7 couldn’t be more true.