Power Protection For Extended Blackouts

Posted on 16th November 2018

A properly-designed online UPS provides its critical load with excellent protection from utility mains power disturbances and brief outages of a few seconds or possibly minutes. However, to ensure uninterrupted...

How to optimise your mid-sized ICT installation’s power protection

Posted on 26th April 2018

Large-scale enterprises typically use data centres to handle their IT load – and these will have large-scale UPS systems to provide conditioned AC power with high availability and efficiency. What...

Supplying continuous power under all conditions – the role of the static switch

Posted on 26th March 2018

Kohler Uninterruptible Power (UPSs) are well-known as devices that can support critical loads by using stored energy during mains power blackouts. In reality though, they must also offer protection from...

Why do I need a UPS?

Posted on 21st February 2018

Today, data centres and other IT systems of any size inevitably rely on UPSs to safeguard their data processing and communications hardware – and the UPS’s role is not only...

Understanding the role of static switches

Posted on 21st February 2018

Kohler Uninterruptible Power (UPSs) provide their best protection in on line mode, where they filter power to the critical load. However, under some circumstances running the UPS in offline mode...

Meeting a Data Centre’s Competing Demands

Posted on 25th January 2018

Larger enterprises spend millions of pounds in energy every year with data centres using huge amounts of electricity. This reality, set against a background of rising energy costs and growing...

The Internet of Things, data centres, and UPSs

Posted on 17th November 2017

The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining traction at an accelerating pace; Gartner[i] has predicted 26 billion connected devices by 2020, while others are calling even higher numbers. Since the...

UPS Terminology Buster

Posted on 17th November 2017

If you’re trying to specify a UPS system, you’ll find yourself confronted, as with any technology, by a fair amount of terminology – which could be confusing if you’re not...

The Kohler PW 9000DPA Three-phase Modular Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

Posted on 11th July 2017

The Kohler PW 9000DPA is a revolutionary rack-mounted, transformerless UPS system with 99.9999% power availability. Designed with demanding IT environments and data centres in mind the Kohler PW 9000DPA has ‘hot swappable’...

RBS Guarantees 2N+1 Resilience for its Trading Floor

The primary function of any UPS system is to provide a reliable source of power in the event of a catastrophic loss of mains electricity. Typically, above a certain level...

How FM managers can deliver uninterrupted power that meets their IT department’s requirements

Posted on 19th October 2015

Data centre owners continue to seek ways to reduce energy consumption both to save money and to improve their green credentials. Facilities managers can contribute to this quest by ensuring...

Why understanding your UPS’ total cost of ownership is important

Posted on 19th August 2015

When budgeting for uninterruptible power supply systems, it's essential to consider the total cost of ownership rather than just the original purchase price. If operating costs and upgrades are taken...

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