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Better Data Center Design

Eaton's unique approach combines industry-leading technologies and innovative software to deliver better data center design

Infrastructure with Intelligence

Eaton Infrastructure with Intelligence is a unique multi-layer strategy that provides enhanced protection and security to modern data centers. Together, the combination of different layers including industry-leading hardware, technologies and innovative software produce the most energy efficient, resilient and safe data centers.

Physical Layer - Intrinsic Safety in Design

- Power devices for data center white space: Eaton offers a wide range of intelligent power protection (UPS), power distribution (rack PDU) and housing products (IT racks) to be installed directly in the IT space.

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- Power devices for data center grey space: Eaton has solid experience in delivering best-in-class power protection and distribution solutions to protect the entire data center buildings.

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Having a strong heritage and many decades of experience in designing reliable power management solutions, Eaton offers a range of innovative hardware products to data centers and IT applications of different sizes and complexity. This hardware products allow the design of intrinsically safe power chains, with prevention, protection and mitigation from electrical threats and maintenance and design induced errors; all achieved with equipment resilient to temperature extremes and compliant with the latest safety regulations.

Intelligence Layer - Intelligent and Auto-Adaptive Power Chains

The intelligence layer helps optimize the power infrastructure, significantly improve energy efficiency, increase reliability and deliver industry-leading savings. Eaton technology portfolio includes energy saving technologies like Variable Module Management System (VMMS), Energy Saver System (ESS) and on-site load testing technology, as well as unique UPS paralleling technology HotSync. In addition Eaton offers the market first UPS-as-a-Reserve technology, which enable data centre operators turn their UPS investments into a revenue stream.

Optimisation Layer - Simplified Monitoring and Management of IT Infrastructure

Eaton IPM Infrastructure offers data centre managers an effective and timely data center infrastructure monitoring and management tool, helping them to understand power, environmental and physical capacity metrics across their network. Using this information, IT operators can then plan changes, anticipate challenges and make intelligent management decisions to optimize efficiency and ensure business continuity.

Virtualization Layer - Virtualization and Cloud Platforms Actuation

Eaton offers data center managers a virtualization-ready power management software, that integrates into industry´s leading virtualization platforms and monitor power devices from the virtualization dashboard of your choice. The software also helps trigger predefined disaster recovery policies in case of power and environmental events in virtualized environments.

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