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Design your server room for business optimization

Meet ever-changing technology demands and easily adapt to new business requirements by designing a server room with maximized uptime, efficiency and flexibility.

Harness efficiency and reliability in a cost-effective design

Today’s server rooms must balance a myriad of complex and, oftentimes competing, demands. From ensuring always-on power to establishing the flexibility needed to remain responsive and adaptive, a properly designed and supported server room is fundamental to operational success.

An effective framework must also incorporate key considerations such as energy efficiency, network security, redundancy and sustainability, all while accommodating shrinking IT budgets. Yet with the right solutions, you can realize all of your goals—achieving a flexible server room space that is built for efficiency, optimized for uptime and affords seamless IT management.

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Enhance uptime with multi-layered approach

Properly safeguarding servers, storage, network switches and other IT equipment from damaging power anomalies requires a comprehensive approach. From backup power supplies and rack PDUs to enclosures, data center monitoring and cable management systems, Eaton solutions provide end-to-end protection. Many of our products offer plug-and-play compatibility for accelerated installation time and seamless integration with a variety of leading IT infrastructure providers. And you can access all the tools you need to manage, monitor and control the power devices in your server room’s physical or virtual environment through Eaton's Brightlayer Data Centers software suite.

Easily embrace sustainability

As the focus on renewables intensifies, we make it easy for you to achieve sustainability goals while lowering energy costs through solutions such as high-efficiency UPSs, EnergyAware grid-interactive technology and embedded resilience in our UPS electronics. Further optimize server room energy efficiency through our environmental monitoring solutions, which allow you to keep a constant pulse on temperature and humidity.  

Design for flexibility with an open architecture

A flexible IT system is essential in order to achieve the agility needed to respond quickly to any change, from footprint to energy consumption to resource utilization. Get the most out of your power systems and your investment by deploying modular UPSs that can cost-effectively scale up or down to accommodate changing needs. Creating an open architecture in your server room also allows you to integrate into existing cooling, power and distribution equipment to help monitor and optimize overall operations—visibility that promotes better asset management and information systems management. 

Shore up cybersecurity

Your server room environment requires an unparalleled level of protection, and we can help you develop a resilient defense strategy. From network management cards with built-in cybersecurity to options to effectively fortify your rack enclosures, we help ensure safety and security for your data, your equipment and your personnel. Eaton is dedicated to establishing cyber-secure processes and innovating technologies, evidenced by our “secure by design” philosophy that is embedded in all the Intelligent Power products and platforms we bring to market.

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