Data Centre World
Data Centre World is the world’s largest and most influential gathering of data centre expertise for data centre professionals and the data centre industry. We will be exhibiting on 12-13...
Sharing the load: How UPS systems use multiple technologies to deliver best in class efficiency
Data centre operators, like any other business, are under continuous pressure to improve their energy efficiency. This is partly due to rising fuel costs, but also because shareholders, business partners...
Taking Charge
Alan Luscombe of Kohler Uninterruptible Power (KUP) compares the attributes of valve regulated lead acid (VRLA) and lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery teachnologies. Data centre UPSs provide battery back-up to sensitive ICT...
KUP Milestone: 20 Years of UPS Sales and Service
Hook, Hampshire, December 14, 2017: This December marks the 20th anniversary of Kohler Uninterruptible Power Limited (KUP), a Kohler company – one of the UK’s largest UPS sales and service companies....
Uninterruptible Power Supply technologies – current trends and future projections
UPSs use many technologies to fulfil their role, and are subject to a wide range of industry trends. Here, Alan Luscombe, director at Kohler Uninterruptible Power Ltd., a Kohler company,...
Is it time to consider Lithium-ion batteries?
Data centres and other installations needing power protection have traditionally favoured lead-acid batteries for UPS backup power, and the technology remains dominant today. Yet lithium-ion batteries have been commercially available...
The Internet of Things, data centres, and UPSs
The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining traction at an accelerating pace; Gartner[i] has predicted 26 billion connected devices by 2020, while others are calling even higher numbers. Since the...
How your UPS installation can benefit your DCIM strategy
Data centre infrastructure management, or DCIM, is growing in popularity as a logical way to manage data centre operations, offering improved energy efficiency, power availability and other benefits. In this...
Containerized data centres
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 which...
The history of data centres
Today, data centres can be large and complex enough to influence the economy of the region hosting them. Extreme examples of this are Switch’s SuperNAP campus in Las Vegas, together...
Optimising power protection for your mid-sized ICT installation
Large-scale enterprises typically use data centres to handle their IT load – and these will have large-scale UPS systems to provide conditioned AC power with high availability and efficiency. What...
The UPS role in the Uptime Institute’s Tier Classification System
Data centre availability is critical to the success or even survival of most organisations today. Its importance is reflected in The Uptime Institute’s Tier Classification System that defines different tiers...