UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company?

An anonymous reader writes "We're a small company employing ~30 people and we are becoming increasingly reliant on virtual servers. Unfortunately, the hosts they are on don't have redundant power supplies because we simply don't have the capacity. We currently have one UPS per rack, which gives us about two minutes. This may have been enough time when they were put in — they've been there for some time — but it isn't really enough time to shut everything down in the event of a failure. Domain Controllers alone may take up to 15 minutes. So I'm looking at upgrading the UPSs to ones that would preferably give us around 15 minutes of breathing space and send an email or text alert when a failure is detected. Something that could trigger shutdowns automatically would also be nice. Of course cost is a key factor too. so given all of the above, what does Slashdot recommend?"

stationary bikes with alternator

[Anonymous Coward]

should serve 2 purpose - give you temp power and keeps your IT guys fit

Re:stationary bikes with alternator

[lastomega7]

Or if you have a bunch of hampsters around for whatever reason, all you'd have to do is train them to tweet failures/auto-shutdown everything.

Re:1st. Identify Requirements

[trum4n]

You run Windows Vista on your servers?

Re:1st. Identify Requirements

[Anonymous Coward]

Since Windows has so many 'unplanned shutdowns', they probably had to make it handle them well.