Network Communications News (NCN) April 2017 | Page 28

UPS
Powering
hyperscale data centres
Gael Souchet, Schneider Electric’s senior product and launch manager, says the new
Galaxy VX UPS family combines ultra efficient, ECOnversion technology and Lithium-ion
batteries; meaning customers need no longer trade-off between efficiency and reliability.
U
PS systems deployed
to safeguard against
power outages in
large data centres,
with power ratings
between 0.7 and 4MW, must meet
a number of familiar challenges.
They must be reliable in terms of
operation and management of risk;
they must be easy to maintain;
they must be scalable; they must
be able to preserve the value
of capital investments over the
long term, taking into account the
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flexibility to scale resources up or
down, and they must also have
low operating costs.
Schneider Electric’s Galaxy
VX family of UPS systems is
intended for use in such large
data centres and addresses
all of these concerns with
innovative technology, including
the company’s novel four-level
inverter and ECOnversion power
saving mode and the use of space
saving Lithium-ion batteries. It is
estimated that by utilising Galaxy
VX in ECOnversion mode, energy
savings of more than £407,000
can be made over a 10-year life of
a 1.5MW UPS.
The new VX solutions are
an extension of the existing VM
family of UPS systems, offering
models with higher power ratings
of 0.75, 1.00, 1.25 and 1.5MW. These
are intended to provide the power
and scalability required for large
data centres, allowing a ‘pay-as-
you-grow’, modular approach as
the power requirement increases