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Right-Sizing Your Power Infrastructure
How to optimize energy efficiency without impeding growth
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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
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10 Ways to Increase Power System Availability in Data Centers
Strategies for ensuring clean, continuous power to essential IT systems
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Increase Server Energy Efficiencies
High-Voltage Power Supplies and 208V UPSs Offer a Solution
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Power Monitoring 101
Supervisory, connectivity and protection options that add an umbrella of protection over your entire IT infrastructure
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The Vector Approach to Data Center Power Planning
How to avoid unplanned obsolescence in the power distribution infrastructure
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Alternative data center power
A quantitative TCO comparison of 400V AC and 600V AC power systems
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What your IT equipment needs from a UPS
The top five requirements that define “quality power” in the eyes of the power supplies in your IT systems
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Is your data center running out of power or cooling?
Seven ways to extend the value of what you have and optimize the plan for what you need
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The necessary convergence of IT and Facilities
Bringing the two groups together under one unified process
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Is your data center ready for virtualization?
Important power considerations for virtualized IT environments
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Redefining the economics of running the modern data center
Is your IT organization capitalizing on the latest technology options and best practices?
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Power Considerations for VoIP
Protecting critical voice communications in the converged enterprise network environment
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Parallel UPS configurations
Connecting multiple UPS modules for added capacity or redundancy
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Build for today. Expand on demand.
Modularity in the data center power infrastructure, Anderson Hungria, Application Engineer, Eaton
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Data Center – Unique Characteristics and the Role of Medium voltage Vacuum Circuit Breakers
Data Centers have a number of unique characteristics and or needs. Some of the characteristics are unique to this market segment.
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Is power your weakest link in data center flexibility?
Key considerations for power systems in adaptive IT environments
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Choosing a UPS Service Plan
This white paper examines the four primary options available for maintenance and service of UPS products, as well as outlines the differences and specific advantages among these alternatives.
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The Benefits of a Preventive Maintenance Service Plan for your UPS
This white paper examines the various threats that can lead to a UPS failure and addresses the specific ways in which a preventive maintenance service plan can dramatically minimize those risks.
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The ABCs of UPS Service
Proper service is a critical component to ensuring optimal performance from a UPS while minimizing the risks of downtime.
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Considering the effects of UPS operation with leading power factor loads
Over the past five years, a new generation of data processing and communications equipment has become prevalent in modern data centers and network operations centers.
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High Power UPS Achieves Significant Size and Weight Reductions While Enhancing Performance
First appearing at lower power levels, transformer-free UPS designs have been around two decades or so. A vast majority of designs below 30 kVA are now transformer-free, meaning that the UPS does not contain power line frequency magnetics (transformers or inductors).
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Increase the efficiency of power distribution in your high-density data center
This paper shows how the latest advancements in power distribution products can reduce energy, cabling and cooling costs for your data center.
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Harmonics in your electrical system
Harmonic currents, generated by non-linear electronic loads, increase power system heat losses and power bills of end-users.
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Electrical Equipment Floor Space
This paper will review some of the NEC requirements regarding required electrical space. It will discuss new product concepts serving to reduce equipment size, resulting in reduced space requirements, reduced installation time, and reduced installation costs.
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Power factor as it relates to UPS products
This white paper is designed to provide clarification about issues related to UPS power factor (pf).
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Branch Circuit Protection for High Density 208V Power Solutions
Over the past two years the power consumption per server has increased an estimated 20-30%. To facilitate the increased power loads, power solutions that were typically rated at 1900 to 4900VA are now regularly rated at 4800 to 8600VA.
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Distributing Power to Blade Servers
Ten steps to selecting the optimal power distribution design
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Surge suppression takes the bite out of transients
Voltage transients are just one of those things you may not give a lot of thought to until they've done their worst
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Static Auto Tie mean time between failure calculations
In a dual power path UPS and distribution system where there are single power cord loads (SPCL) as well as dual power cord loads (DPCL) the availability of protected power to the SPCLs can be greatly increased by the addition of a Powerware® Static Auto Tie (SAT) to the system which will allow the elimination of all the downstream static transfer switches (STS) that serve the SPCLs.
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Straight talk about Electrolytic Capacitors in your UPS
What they are, what they do, why they’re essential in your UPS— and the importance of proactive maintenance for these humble and often overlooked components
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Who tripped the circuit?
The clear-cut case for branch circuit monitoring in data centers
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Energy efficient transformers reduce data center utility costs
New legislation restricts the type of transformers you can buy, to more expensive models of new design. That’s actually good news for your power distribution system.
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Ten Ways to Protect Your IT Infrastructure
Reduce Costs while protecting critical business systems
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Powerware® eNotify Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics Service Technical Briefing Paper
Eaton offers Powerware eNotify Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics Service, hereafter referred to as the eNotify Service, for Powerware UPS service contract customers.
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