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CREATING A POWER STRATEGY TO ENSURE UPTIME AND AVOID UNEXPECTED OUTAGES
Ensuring uptime is a critical objective for data center managers . Technology is helping to ease the load by providing intelligent insights into power usage . Calvin Nicholson , Senior Director of Product Management at Legrand DPC ( Data , Power and Control Division ), which includes the Server Technology brand , tells Intelligent CIO ’ s Jess Phillips about the key benefits of the company ’ s
PRO3X PDU and how it is helping infrastructure teams to future-proof their devices .
Jess Phillips hUptime is critical and there are a number of things that
How important is continued uptime for data centers and what are some of the factors that influence uptime ?
influence it . Most of our customers use two PDUs , an A and a B feed that can be from two separate grids or one grid and a UPS , for example . You ideally want to load each side to 40 % so that if you get a failure and one PDU is picking up the whole cabinet ’ s load , you ’ re running roughly 80 % of the load .
Organizations aren ’ t permitted to run continuously at above 80 , so it ’ s really as simple as knowing the
Real time monitoring can refer to power , but it can also be environmental – we know there ’ s a focus today on saving money , and saving money is saving power .
overall kW , distributing that load evenly , ensuring the cabinet is powered and plugged in properly during installation , and then making sure that power is distributed over both of the PDUs within the cabinet .
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