Addressing Challenges
to Powering Midsize
IT Systems
A Guide for Electrical
Contractors and Distributors
Can You Deliver Savings to
Customers and Margins for Yourself?
Challenge
Your customers are looking for low first cost and operating savings. You need the margins to drive your business. Finding the right
power system to accomplish all three has been tough. Investing in an efficient and flexible power solution to manage capital and
operating costs is a must.
Consider
Businesses face several factors when it comes to estimating
budgets and managing costs. Outdated or ineffective
power systems impact your energy costs. Data center power
consumption is driving more operators to seek improved
efficiencies. In addition capital budgets are often tight. Striving
for low cost of ownership takes into consideration not only
utility costs and first costs, but also the cost of space and lost
capacity, maintenance/support and opportunity costs (cost
of downtime).
How Emerson Network
Power Can Help
Emerson Network Power provides cost-effective small to midsize
power solutions with:
Systems that deliver more power in a smaller footprint and
minimize installation and cabling costs
Highly efficient designs that can provide exceptional operating
savings across all load capacities
ENERGY STAR® qualified UPS models
Optimized ancillaries that work together
How to Solve
Predicting and managing your costs starts with finding the
right technologies and partners. Consider highly efficient
UPS systems with flexible power capabilities. These
advantages will not only help save electricity, but provide the
backdrop to manage future costs. Consider a pre-engineered
design that can save on installation costs and be easily
deployed. Evaluate a partner who can help limited IT staff with
remote and local power management and installation. You will
want to consider UPSs with a small footprint and high power
factor to ensure the most power per dollar is being delivered to
your customers.
Scalable and/or modular designed solutions that minimize
capital investment to support unpredictable future demands
Remote site management capabilities, such as our unique
LIFE™ Services remote diagnostics and communications
solutions to reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and increase
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) to minimize or avoid
unplanned downtime
Efficiency example of a Liebert® UPS (40kVA/kWV,
208V) in Double Conversion Mode
97%
Liebert UPS
Brand E
Brand A
96%
Efficiency
95%
Infrastructure
Systems
94%
93%
92%
91%
90%
30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Load
Intelligence
Systems
Utilize a holistic approach to deliver
improved performance.
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Services
& Support
ENERGY STAR® qualified
models available
Are You Able to Optimize the Availability
of Critical IT Applications?
Challenge
You recognize that your customer’s data operations, first and foremost, must be available. Recent studies* reveal availability is still the
#2 concern for facilities under 5,000 s/f, and #1 for centers up to 10,000 s/f in size. As business demands escalate, your customers IT
systems must become enablers to growth. The challenge is to maintain or increase the IT resilience and availability required for their
organizations to succeed.
Consider
Unavailability is unacceptable. The demand for information is
all day, every day. For many facilities, service-level agreements
must be met. This requires true uninterrupted power to IT
systems. Those struggling with lean operations, tight budgets
and staff who may lack UPS expertise can make power
management more challenging, increasing the likelihood for
errors and unplanned downtime.
Reliable, resilient power starts with a UPS that is faulttolerant and provides robust protection from all key electrical
disturbances. Look for solutions that guard against the
electrical problems that arise in most facilities and provide
the redundancy needed. You know the importance of UPS
batteries (ranked the weakest link in any power chain). Seek
a UPS system that has the ability to monitor battery health
easily and effectively. Finally, choose a support partner that
can help you and your customers maintain performance and
shorten service time.
The chart below shows improvement, but continued
progress needs to be made.
12.00
10.16
10.00
5.88
4.00
2.00
0.00
Flexibility of installation options
Easy to use intelligent controls to reduce human error and
communicate critical status
Maintenance bypass solutions to avoid powering down
IT systems
Extended battery options for longer-lasting protection
Certified short circuit withstand ratings
Flexibility to meet extra capacity/redundancy demands
Remote service diagnostics to proactively identify problems and
prevent or enable a quick, efficient response
Prevention starts with knowing where to look. By addressing
the right causes, you can deliver better availability.
Root Causes of Infrastructure Downtime*
Frequency of Data Center Outages Over Two Years*
6.00
Emerson Network Power provides reliable power systems that
include fault tolerant UPS designs to deliver the best power quality:
Battery monitoring to enable proactive management and
reduce failure risks
How to Solve
8.00
How Emerson Network
Power Can Help
11.29
UPS battery failure
Accidental EPO/human error
Extrapolated incidents for
FY 2013
51%
UPS equipment failure
49%
35%
Heat related/CRAC failure
33%
PDU/circuit breaker failure
33%
0%
Localized
shutdown
53%
Water incursion
6.84
2.04 2.48
Total DC
shutdown
65%
UPS capacity exceeded
10% 20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Limited
outages
Extrapolated incidents for
FY 2010
*Source: 2013 Study on Data Center Outages, The Ponemon Institute, sponsored by Emerson Network Power
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70%
Can You Help Customers Improve
Power System Visibility and Intelligence?
Challenge:
Lack of visibility into the power system’s performance can lead to costly mistakes and business productivity loss. Asking customers to
manage power protection in addition to day-to-day responsibilities could hinder productivity and produce unintended problems.
Consider
Providing your customers with easy and better visibility into
intelligent power systems along with a method to help manage,
interpret and act on the data.
How to Solve
You should look for power systems that provide instant access
to critical operating information. Intelligent, easy-to-use UPS
interface panels allow both experienced and inexperienced
people to quickly obtain operating status while reducing the
likelihood of human error. If your customer lacks resources to
manage critical power, they need a partner who can provide
both remote and local onsite support to ensure accurate and
timely response.
As the trend of responsibilities for power systems continues
to shift, new ways to manage power should be considered.
Data Center Responsibilities are Shifting
100%
How Emerson Network
Power Can Help
Emerson Network Power provides enhanced data insight and
visibility with:
User friendly, menu-driven control panel that helps reduce
errors through enhanced monitoring and simplified control
Network connectivity that allows vital status to be
visible and can be integrated with DCIM and building
management systems
Multiple communications paths to ensure connectivity across
needed protocols
Integrated battery monitoring to proactively identify potential
battery issues
Lifecycle management with continuous remote diagnostics and
proactive service dispatch to reduce staff time to monitor and
maintain UPSs systems
Greater power system intelligence can enable improved total
performance for organizations.
IT Expects Infrastructure Management to Bring
Beneficial Visibility & Control
80%
Deploying in new build,
not existing, data center
60%
40%
20%
Power and cooling
management
0%
2005
IT Managers and Executives
Facilities Managers
Other
Source: 2013 Ponemon, Study
2013
Predictive
analysis
Capacity
planning
Source: Data Center Dynamics Jan 2013, Survey on
Top Benefits of DCIM
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Do You want to Offer Better System
Flexibility and Accelerate Deployment?
Challenge:
Chances are your customer needs applications and systems to be up and running quickly so they can meet business demands.
How do you best add, update or modify power systems to support their changing IT needs?
Consider:
Escalating demands usually trigger new apps, servers, switches,
racks and/or appliances. Each must be kept running without
interruption. However, deploying new business systems can
impact time, cost and labor. Customers want the installation
process to be as fast and as simple as possible. Partnering with a
company that has the know-how and the resources to support
deployment, installation and startup is a great answer.
How to Solve:
Look for power systems with a flexible design that can meet
future capacity or redundancy demands. To accelerate
deployment time, consider systems with a modular design or
scalable platform that can be ordered, delivered and installed
effectively. Leverage partners who understand the entire power
chain to prevent needless problems. Leverage local experts who
can help you configure and offer startup support to ensure a
smooth implementation.
Do not underestimate the benefits of rapid deployment, with flexible
architectures backed by field experts that can make it fast and easy.
How Emerson Network
Power Can Help:
Emerson Network Power helps accelerate deployment with:
Modular designs that enable fast, smooth integration
Robust, flexible ancillary options to meet current and
future demands
Designs that can scale to respond to changes in capacity
or redundancy
Flexible battery run times, power distribution, capacity and
redundancy configurations
Quick, quality field installation support
Solutions that fit most space requirements
Support services can deliver both remote monitoring and local
expertise throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to ensure fast,
reliable system performance.
Local and Remote Support Can Save
Time and Money
Dynamic Power Systems to Meet IT Demands
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Emerson Network Power Solutions
for Midsize IT Systems
Make the data center as dynamic as the business
Whatever your small or midsized power needs Emerson Network Power has innovative technologies to address
your requirements.
Power Distribution
Units: Includes room,
row and rack-based
electrical distribution.
Modular busway options
also available.
Liebert® eXM™ UPS: Offers efficient,
cost effective, flexible power protection
optimized around fixed capacities
that can operate under Eco mode
to achieve efficiencies (over 98%) or
double conversion mode. It has the
latest ancillary options for optimized
performance. Parallel for added capacity
or redundancy.
Liebert eXM UPS 10-200kVA/kW
Shown: MPH2™ Rack PDU
Liebert APM™ UPS: Provides
cost-efficient scalability for dynamic
environments with changing power
demands. Uses internally redundant
components for enhanced availability.
Operate using double conversion or
active eco mode. Single systems
from 15-90kW can be paralleled
for added capacity.
LIFE™ Services Remote
Diagnostic and Preventative
Monitoring: Provides remote
diagnostics and preventive
monitoring service for UPS
Analysis &
Diagnostics
equipment. LIFE Services delivers
increased uptime and operational
Response
efficiency by enabling continuous
monitoring of equipment, expert
Remote & Local Support data analysis and field engineering
expertise. It provides Emerson
remote service experts real-time insight and information to
quickly identify, diagnose, and resolve any irregularities.
Monitoring
Liebert APM UPS 15-90kW
Intelligent, integrated infrastructure for the data center
Intelligent,
integrated
infrastructure
for the
Intelligent, integrated infrastructure for the data
center
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Family of intelligent integrated
infrastructure solutions includes
power, thermal, monitoring
and enclosure options to
cost-effectively achieve and
manage desired levels of capacity,
efficiency, availability and speed Cabinet
of deployment.
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Power Solutions for All Your
Midsize IT Applications
Midsize IT of many types demand proper power. You can trust
Emerson to have the right solution, at the right price … right now.
•Small data centers
•Midsize data centers
•Large network closets
•Emergency lighting
•Control rooms
•Diagnostics/testing IT
UL 924 Emergency
Lighting UPS
•Labs
•VoIP
•Branch office IT
SO WHAT SHOULD YOU DO NEXT?
Locate and contact your Emerson Network Power local business partner.
For more information about these solutions and all others supporting the data
center, visit www.EmersonNetworkPower.com
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