UPS suggestions for small office

I have four Mac Pro workstations and recently experienced a power outage. Two designers lost about an hours work each. Finally decided to bite the bullet and buy UPS systems for all the workstations. Any suggestions?
All are Mac Pro stations with 26" LCD monitors, external 500g hard drives (one station has 3 backup 1 terabyte drives for video). I only need these to run 15-30 minutes after an outage to save the files.
Any recommendations would be appreciated!
Thanks!

Insure that you are running off a circuit that can handle the load. Adding 4 UPS of 1500VA won't help, and to have 20-30 minutes, I went with an extra battery pack which added 1 hr (now have 75 minutes but there are times when even 15 minutes isn't enough, and 40 minutes was more realistic).
But you probably want to look at something that would cover patch into your electrical circuit(s) more than just add stand alone units for each. That would be cheaper and easier, under $2k, but a large rackmount that would provide 3000VA costing $8k and up (more like $12k) is what I would contemplate.
http://configurator.apcc.com/products/powerstruxure/configurator/PSX_Config.cfm

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Hello,
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