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Eaton:
The fifth element
of converged and
hyper-converged
infrastructures
In today’s high-availability server environments, unplanned
power outages or line quality irregularities can have a significant
impact on small, medium and large enterprise businesses.
The shift to cloud environments and the growing popularity of
converged infrastructures and hyper-converged infrastructures
underscore the need for high-efficiency and scalable power
protection, distribution and management.
Eaton collaborates with the leaders in converged and hyperconverged infrastructures to provide lab-validated power
management solutions consisting of racks and enclosures,
power distribution units, UPSs and our award-winning Intelligent
Power Manager (IPM) software. This collaboration exemplifies
the evolution of converged and hyper-converged infrastructure
management, and enables you to increase efficiency as well as
protect valuable IT and hardware equipment.
Why do you need power management for converged and
hyper-converged infrastructures?
Converged infrastructures are susceptible to the same power
spikes and electrical disturbances as a traditional environment.
Without an effective power infrastructure in place, your failover
and redundant features within your IT environment are unable
to function properly. This leaves your company exposed to a
risk of data loss and unnecessary downtime.
Power management is the essential fifth element of the
complete converged infrastructure solution.
Eaton: The fifth element of
converged and hyper-converged
infrastructures.
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Network
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Top reasons to implement a power protection strategy:
Virtualization
1. Prevent hardware damage typically caused by surges
and spikes.
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2. P
revent data loss and corruption. Without a UPS, devices
that are subjected to a hard system shutdown can lose
data completely or have it corrupted. In conjunction
with power management software, a UPS can facilitate
a graceful system shutdown.
Compute
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Storage
3. P
rovide availability for networks and other applications
while preventing downtime.
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Integrated
power
management
Eaton integrated power management solutions
allow you to:
• View
and manage your entire power system from your
existing virtualization dashboard
• Keep critical loads running longer
• Ensure maximum business continuity
Whether supporting network infrastructure, virtualized data
centers or integrated infrastructures, Eaton’s solutions provide
a powerful, integrated and scalable solution designed to
properly organize, protect and manage IT investments to
reduce risk and enhance business continuity.
Technology alliances and partnerships
Through integration points with leading software and hardware
vendors such as VMware, Microsoft, Cisco, NetApp, EMC,
VCE and SimpliVity, our solution expands the capabilities of
the virtual platform and simplifies the implementation of
power infrastructure in new and existing IT environments.
Our validated reference architectures provide peace of mind
that these leading manufacturers have tested and validated
our solutions.
For more information visit:
Eaton.com/CI
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Publication No. BR152015EN / GG
August 2015
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