Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
[ Source: APC ]
October 2011-
As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are three subtle but significant factors that can materially affect a company’s cost of operating a UPS system and particularly the electrical bill. Unfortunately, the people who specify systems often fail to recognize these factors, which leads to increased costs to the owner because operational efficiencies are ...
Reducing the Hidden Costs Associated with Upgrades of Data Center Power Capacity
[ Source: APC ]
May 2011-
Scaling the power capacity of legacy UPS systems leads to hidden costs that may outweigh the very benefit that scalability intends to provide. A scalable UPS system provides a significant benefit to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of data center and network room physical infrastructure. This paper describes the drawbacks of scaling legacy UPS systems and how scalable rack-based systems address these drawbacks. The cost factors of both methods are described, quantified and compared.
Optimizing your Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
[ Source: Eaton ]
January 2011-
Cloud computing is generating enormous amounts of discussion and excitement in the world of corporate IT. Eager to drive efficiency up and costs down, organizations of every size and description are rapidly adopting Web-based software, platform and infrastructure solutions. Indeed, analyst firm International Data Corporation expects global spending by enterprises on cloud services to rise at a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent between 2009 and 2013, from $17.4 billion to $44.2 billion. Within a matter of years, experts ...
Maximizing UPS Availability
[ Source: Eaton ]
January 2011-
Uninterruptible power systems (UPSs) play a vital role in ensuring IT reliability. As a result, their reliability is a crucial consideration too. Any time a UPS fails, mission-critical electrical loads are potentially at risk.
What, then, can organizations do to optimize UPS availability? As this white paper shows, the conventional answers to that question are often not the best ones. UPS reliability is ultimately less a function of UPS design—such as the ...
Improving Availability in a Digital Hospital: Balancing High Levels of IT Availability with Energy Efficiency
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
November 2010-
When it comes to healthcare IT systems, downtime is not an option. To ensure patient data is always available at the point of care, the hospital’s network closet IT infrastructure – power, cooling and monitoring – must be properly designed. In this paper, you’ll learn the essential points IT and facility managers need to know when evaluating the benefits and costs associated with powering and cooling a hospital’s network closets.
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Avoiding Trap Doors Associated with Purchasing a UPS System
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
July 2010-
A poor power protection strategy can lead businesses through a series of trap doors that lead to increased downtime, premature obsolescence and avoidable maintenance and replacement costs. The risk is especially severe for SMBs, which often can’t afford fallback systems when IT systems fail and deal with longer recovery times when there is an outage. IT professionals should evaluate their power protection strategy in terms of availability, growth, maintenance and flexibility.
Balance of Power: Choosing between Transformer-based UPS and Transformer-free UPS based on high availability vs. high efficiency considerations
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
May 2010-
Choosing the right UPS platform for your data center is a critical decision when you’re trying to balance high availability and greater energy efficiency. This e-book breaks down the differences between the traditional transformer-based UPS and the transformerless UPS in a large enterprise data center.
You’ll learn the benefits and costs associated with both UPS designs. The e-book, which is part of the Efficiency Without Compromise series, covers energy efficiency comparisons; ...
Bay Area Internet Solutions
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
November 2009-
As Bay Area Internet Solutions was quickly becoming an established player in Silicon Valley’s managed services industry, the company’s global customer base—startups to Fortune 500 companies—was continuing to expand and demanding 100% uptime. The company enlisted Emerson Network Power to assist them in building a new 83,000-square-foot facility with an energy-efficient, integrated power, cooling and monitoring solution.
See the steps Emerson Network Power took to achieve the company’s goals of ...
Case Study: Norton Healthcare
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
November 2009-
Norton Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Louisville, was supporting 13,000 users and 400 servers on a 35-year-old data center. When the data center reached its capacity, the manager reached out to Emerson Network Power to completely remodel the 3,400-square-foot facility.
This paper covers the strategies Emerson Network Power implemented to create a scalable, redundant infrastructure, increasing workload by 100% and reducing help desk calls by 20%. This included installing two Liebert 610 UPS Systems at 400 kVA to ...
4 Data Center Trends of the Future
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
November 2009-
Does efficiency have to come at the expense of availability? Not according to this paper, which outlines the four data center infrastructure trends that are reducing design, operating and management costs while improving data center performance. Those trends are Infrastructure Management, Eco Availability, Flex Capacity and High Density. Taking advantage of the opportunities listed in this paper will enable you to more efficiently deploy and use all of your resources throughout the life of the ...