Continuity of service in uncertain times
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for the facilities management sector. Not only have managers been required to continuously adapt their working practices, but the past year has also...
Choosing the right UPS communications capability for your application
UPS systems, whether they are desktop units for single workstations, or installations for large data centres, need communications capability. This is primarily to raise alarms during mains power failures, and...
UPS Monitoring: Why bother with it, and what can it do for you?
Welcome to the third article on preventative maintenance and the benefits it can bring to your critical power protection devices; uninterruptible power supplies, emergency lighting and UPS battery solutions. Kohler...
Protecting UPS remote management systems from adverse human activity
In this article Alex Emms, Operations Director at Kohler Uninterruptible Power, explains why full automation isn’t always the best answer for remote UPS management. A data centre and the ICT...
5G and its impact on data centres
The 5G standard is truly a game-changer; its speed, latency and connection densities are such significant improvements over 4G that entirely new applications that simply weren’t previously viable now become...
How well do your UPSs and ICT equipment communicate?
Some UPSs need just simple communications capability, to warn their critical load of an impending failure. Larger, more complex or widely-distributed systems benefit in many ways from more sophisticated, network-based...
The benefits of communicating with your UPS
Communications capability is vital to the effectiveness and wellbeing of a UPS: While crucially facilitating orderly system shutdowns during extended power failures, it also allows continuous monitoring and pre-emptive maintenance...
Containerised data centre solutions
We’re all aware of our dependence on technology, as exemplified by smartphones, automated booking systems, satnav and much else besides. However, the depth of this dependence and the scale in...
UPS Monitoring: Why bother with it, and what can it do for you?
UPS monitoring is very important indeed. In fact, under some circumstances, a UPS without monitoring or communications capability would be pointless. Suppose, for example, mains power to the UPS failed,...
Why using UPS remote monitoring and maintenance services will save you money
Data centre and ICT system operators invest in UPS power protection equipment to avoid the serious financial and reputational consequences of a power anomaly or outage. However, for this strategy...
Monitoring your remote UPS
Electronic equipment used for data processing, communications and industrial control must be protected from electrical disturbances as well as complete power failures. Good-quality uninterruptible power supplies provide both forms of...
Calculating the true cost of power outages to your business
Ok, so I’ve talked a lot about the cost of power outages in recent articles. ‘The average datacentre downtime incident costs £412,800’ ‘Google’s 2013 outage cost them £100,000 per minute’...