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Mission-Critical Protection

Increasing power backup reliability with flywheel energy storage BY FRANK DELATTRE, VYCON When it comes to protecting critical operations from power failures, a company can never be too prepared, especially with a world that requires 24/7 operations and availability. By definition, being properly...

Surge Protection in IT Environments

Understanding the basics in protecting power systems BY DAVE PERROTTA, SurgeX It’s no secret that power-related issues can hurt business operations, but all too often proper power protection is overlooked or misunderstood, causing a variety of issues including costly downtime, customer...

Safety of Surge Protection Devices

How to prevent catastrophic failures BY DAVID KOMM, Mersen Electrical Protection A surge protective device (SPD) plays an important role in protecting critical electronic components. However, all SPDs are sacrificial devices and, depending on the design and construction of the device, when it...

UPS Systems


UPS Systems Training

Our 2-Day UPS Systems Training course teaches the proper and effective techniques for designing, operating, testing and maintaining UPS and emergency power systems. This two-day technical course begins with a discussion of the need for UPS systems. It then covers the relative comparisons between...


Generators/UPS

Emergency Power for Data Centers

In our cloud-based digital world, data must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week—no matter the state of the electrical grid. Computer downtime not only upsets production, but also negatively affects customer goodwill—quickly affecting an organization’s bottom line. In fact, according to the Meta Group, the cost of downtime can average a million dollars per hour for a typical data center. For this reason, Global Industry Analysts, a marketing research firm, predicts...

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