Leading research groups and related vendors estimate that threats from IT environment issues will cost business and industrial organizations somewhere between $50 billion to $100 billion this year in terms of downtime and related costs.

 

In a recent interview with TMCnet, Michael Sigourney (News - Alert), senior product specialist of AVTECH, said that for less than $2 per day, companies can implement temperature monitoring solutions and achieve significant cost savings while increasing uptime and better serve customers.

 

The previously Newport, R.I.-based company recently purchased and moved into a $2 million facility in nearby Warren, R.I. – no small achievement in a down economy.

 

“Luckily we’ve been continuing to grow. We bought a new building last December. After a two-and-a-half-year search, we moved from Irvine, California where we incorporated 22 years ago to Newport, Rhode Island in 1993. While there, we were in a mill building, and moved seven times every time increasing our space and then improving the building, which of course was great for the landlord but not necessarily cost-effective for us.”

 

Last December, AVTECH purchased a 68,000-square-foot mill and will occupy about 65 percent of the space and is renting out the remaining portions of the facility to other businesses. The company also has plans to establish a 2,500-square-foot facility for training its customers and resellers.

 

AVTECH closed the purchase and sales agreement in December 2008 to buy the Cutler Mills building, despite a regulatory hurdle that nearly scuttled the firm’s planned move to Warren.

Sigourney, who announced his intention to purchase the mill earlier in 2008, said it was good news for the business owner as well, whose plans to move in had previously been stymied by the state Department of Environmental Management.

 

With many businesses increasingly cost conscious and taking a hard look at IT expenses, AVTECH offers affordable products with a significant return on investment for customers.

 

Last year, 23 percent of all data centers experienced downtime more than five times as a result of IT environment issues and 61 percent of the remaining data centers experienced downtime one to four times. If you’re doing the math, Sigourney said, that leaves only 16 percent of all data centers saying that environment issues did not impact IT uptime or reliability at their facility last year.

In a recent interview with TMCnet, Sigourney said that AVTECH products are “very reasonably price and typically recognized in the environment monitoring sector as having the highest value ratio, which means the benefit is significantly greater than the cost.”

 

The company’s products start at $225 for TemPageR, an entry-level product for temperature monitoring only, and go up to $995 for the remote Room Alert 26W – considered as the “Rolls Royce,” top of the line product in the industry – a wireless solution that allows for up to 84 different sensors to be attached, Sigourney said. When you amortize costs over a year, AVTECH’s high-end product is available for less than $2 per day, “the cost of a cup of coffee,” he added.

 

“For less than $2 a day, you can have the leading product that monitors organizations like  the Oval Office, the United Nations, every branch of the U.S. government, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (News - Alert), etc.”

 

“The products have an extremely low entry price and, even better, we provide with every product a year’s worth of maintenance, support and update service,” which include unlimited tech support, four to six firmware and software updates and a 100 percent hardware replacement guarantee. “…Can you imagine putting your computer room, data center or business at risk for less than a quarter day? I don’t think so. Not if you want to keep your job in today’s world.”