MMS's Hosted POS Service Stands Up to Hurricane Juan

October 3, 2003, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

At 6AM the day after touch down of Hurricane Juan all that could be heard in Burnside Industrial Park was the hum of the MMS Caterpillar back-up generator.

While the MMS office lost power for 14 hours, the server room kept running without a second of interruption. The MMS server room features uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), redundant high speed Internet connections, and climate control. As well, a back-up generator automatically starts when it detects a power outage.

"Our disaster recovery plan was put to the test on September 29th with the one of the worst hurricanes in Halifax history. All systems switched to back-up power at 12:09AM on Monday morning with 100% uptime for our over 15,000 MMS users from Newfoundland to Hawaii," said Graham Bakeeff MMS's Technical Manager.

MMS has invested well over $100,000 during the past two-years to develop its Hosted POS service. The Hosted POS service allows companies to cost-effectively rent the MMS software over the Internet. For more information on this service, please click here.

Hurricane Juan hit the Halifax area at around midnight on Sunday September 28th, 2003, and winds died down several hours later at around 4AM on Monday September 29th. Two people died from fallen trees.

A category-2 hurricane, Juan's winds gusted to 147 kilometers per hour (91mph). It was the worst hurricane to hit the Halifax area since 1873.

Over 300,000 residences and businesses lost power in Nova Scotia.