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Right-Sizing Your Power Infrastructure

How to optimize energy efficiency without impeding growth Right-Sizing Your Power Infrastructure

Data centers today are undergoing unprecedented change, as new technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing help lower operating costs, conserve floor space and simplify management.

This white paper discusses the ways in which new technologies are impacting power demand patterns, explores the consequences of having too much power capacity and provides concrete advice on strategies for right-sizing your power systems.

Which UPS is right for the job?

Considerations in choosing standby, line-interactive, double-conversion designs— and new high-efficiency, multi-mode capabilities—for your data center

Traditionally, data center managers and facilities managers could choose from three UPS topologies: standby, line-interactive and double-conversion—offering widely varying levels of efficiency, performance and protection.

The latest generation of double-conversion UPSs offers unique multi-mode capabilities. The UPS operates in a very high-efficiency mode unless power conditions warrant a switch to the higher protective level typical of double-conversion mode.

This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance.

10 Ways to Increase Power System Availability in Data Centers

Strategies for ensuring clean, continuous power to essential IT systems

Data center availability has become an essential precondition to competitiveness and profitability. Yet despite their best efforts to achieve five nines availability, businesses remain vulnerable to a variety of threats. Chief among them are issues affecting electrical power systems.

This white paper discusses 10 such underutilized best practices for building and maintaining a highly available data center power infrastructure.

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