Eaton 9PX UPS

Stewart successfully engineers continuous uptime with Eaton solution

Stewart is a design, engineering and planning firm with five locations throughout North Carolina in the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte. In 2017, Stewart was engaged to provide engineering and design services for The Dillon, the first mixed-use, high rise development of its kind in downtown Raleigh’s rapidly expanding Warehouse District. After working so diligently on the project, Stewart opted to relocate its own headquarters to The Dillon. Read how Eaton provides high availability and uptime to the servers and critical devices at their new office.

Summary

Challenge

As part of relocating its headquarters, Stewart sought a robust power protection solution capable of providing high reliability, scalability and manageability

Solution

Eaton 9PX UPS, Eaton 5PX UPS, Environmental Monitoring Probe, Intelligent Power Manager (IPM)

Results

The Eaton solution delivered everything the firm needed to ensure its critical servers and other equipment would remain protected at all times

Challenge: a robust power protection solution

While Stewart was designing its new, open office space with areas for collaboration, discussion, and team meetings, the firm’s information technology (IT) leaders were also focused on deploying a comprehensive power protection solution capable of safeguarding the company’s servers and other critical devices. High reliability, scalability and manageability were key elements that Stewart desired in an uninterruptible power system (UPS). Pointing out that a competitive company requires pricey upgrades in order to integrate power management software and network connectivity cards with its UPSs, the Eaton’s bundled solutions were appealing to Stewart.

“As we looked at Eaton, we discovered it was an all-inclusive deal, so that was a big selling point. Not to mention, Eaton came in less expensive than comparable models from other manufacturers.”

Matthew Price, Stewart director of technology

Solution: Eaton UPS, monitoring probe and management software

Prior to relocating its headquarters, Stewart had already rolled out Eaton 5PX UPSs at its other locations. While extremely satisfied with its existing fleet of redundant Eaton 5PX2200RT units deployed across its offices and labs, the new facility at The Dillon required a larger, more robust unit to protect the additional lineup of equipment.

Stewart didn’t have to look far to uncover the perfect option: the Eaton 9PX UPS. Since installing four 6 kVA units in the server room of the new facility, Stewart has experienced an unparalleled level of availability and uptime for its vital systems.

Enhancing the reliability of both the 5PX and 9PX units, Eaton’s exclusive ABM® technology uses sophisticated sensing circuitry and an innovative three-stage charging technique to extend the useful service life of batteries while optimizing recharge time.

“These units protect every bit of critical internal infrastructure at our sites, including our servers, switch gear, firewall, file controllers and the phone system. If one of those servers go down, people cannot get into the app to do their job."

Mike Brecht, Stewart senior systems administrator

In addition, the models are available in a convenient bundle that includes a network card and power management software. The firm depends on Eaton’s Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) software to provide graceful, automatic shutdown of network devices during a prolonged power disruption, preventing data loss and saving work-in-progress.

Stewart has gained additional protection and functionality by installing Eaton Environmental Monitoring Probe (EMPs) at each of its sites, which enables personnel to remotely collect temperature and humidity readings in rack enclosures and monitor environmental data.

In addition to the unsurpassed quality of Eaton products, the Stewart team gives high praise to Eaton engineers, who worked with the firm to specify the proper solutions for its various office locations. Ultimately, what Stewart values most about Eaton is the absence of anxiety.

“The Eaton units definitely keep things up and running, while the alerting allows us to be notified of any condition as it’s happening, which is typically off-hours.”

Mike Brecht, Stewart senior systems administrator

Results: With the Eaton solution, Stewart is now able to...

• Provide high availability and uptime to the servers and other critical devices at its headquarters and multiple office locations
• Maintain the highest level of reliability with features such as ABM technology
• Remotely monitor and manage the system using bundled power management software and connectivity
• Gain scalable runtimes with the addition of optional EBMs
• Protect more equipment with the UPS high power factor rating

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