Tags: Data Center Maintenance, CRAC, uninterruptible power supply, data center preventive maintenance, costs

Your Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system needs to remain in peak operating condition in order to keep your critical facilitiy’s equipment protected during unplanned outages. The loss of any business critical systems can be staggering; therefore – facility and data center managers must perform regular UPS maintenance to make sure critical systems stay running in the chance of a sudden loss of power or voltage drop. In this article, we will talk about UPS maintenance, extending the life of your UPS batteries and capacitor replacement recommendations.

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Tags: Data Center Maintenance, uninterruptible power supply, data center power

We want to share a great article from The Data Center Journal regarding Data Center Maintenance and how critical it is in keep your facility up and running. It points out that lack of data center maintenance is the root cause of anywhere from a third to a half of downtime
events in the data center. It also mentions the 2011 study of data center managers conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Emerson Network Power: This study shows that on average the cost of data center downtime was approximately $5,600 per
minute, and the survey's average reported incident length of 90 minutes makes the average cost of a single downtime event to be approximately $505,000—surely that is something most data center managers cannot afford. Here is an excerpt from the article:

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Tags: Data Center Maintenance, Data Center, uninterruptible power supply, data center generators

The recorded version of our recent webinar:
"Proactively Managing Your Data Center Infrastructure"
is now available to view.

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Tags: Data Center, uninterruptible power supply, data center protection, preventive maintenance, hot aisle/cold aisle, thermal imaging