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Important considerations when buying and installing a UPS

All uninterruptible power supply (UPS) models are not created equal, nor are their installation requirements.

Large, mid-range modular and smaller plug-and-play models may all have individual considerations. Requirements can also differ among UPS backup topologies and deployment methods. If you're preparing for UPS installation, this best practices guide with 10 considerations will help ensure that the process goes smoothly.

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A Galaxy of IT Insights

At Eaton, we've always strived to get to know IT pros and their needs by listening to them directly. Recently we launched My IT Galaxy, a questionnaire-slash-infographic creator, where nearly 900 IT pros told us about their day-to-day realities, infrastructure, and stance on pizza toppings.

Our survey included a spectrum of environments, organizations and industries, including education, healthcare, finance, and retail. And so, a whole galaxy of IT insights was born. Here are some of the results.

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Data center UPS battery handbook

Your UPS battery is essential to maintaining power protection for your data center equipment. This handbook is the complete guide to battery options and how to keep batteries healthy and longer-lasting.

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Network connectivity and power management 101 handbook

This handbook covers the basics of connectivity including network cards, cybersecurity, remote monitoring and tips for selecting a power management solution. If you want to better understand why monitoring and managing your power infrastructure is important or just want to gather some ammunition to convince your boss of this, enjoy the visual guides, FAQs, best practices and questions to consider included in this guide.

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A Galaxy of IT Insights

At Eaton, we've always strived to get to know IT pros and their needs by listening to them directly. Recently we launched My IT Galaxy, a questionnaire-slash-infographic creator, where nearly 900 IT pros told us about their day-to-day realities, infrastructure, and stance on pizza toppings.

Our survey included a spectrum of environments, organizations and industries, including education, healthcare, finance, and retail. And so, a whole galaxy of IT insights was born. Here are some of the results.

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A Galaxy of IT Insights

At Eaton, we've always strived to get to know IT pros and their needs by listening to them directly. Recently we launched My IT Galaxy, a questionnaire-slash-infographic creator, where nearly 900 IT pros told us about their day-to-day realities, infrastructure, and stance on pizza toppings.

Our survey included a spectrum of environments, organizations and industries, including education, healthcare, finance, and retail. And so, a whole galaxy of IT insights was born. Here are some of the results.

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Data center UPS battery handbook

Your UPS battery is essential to maintaining power protection for your data center equipment. This handbook is the complete guide to battery options and how to keep batteries healthy and longer-lasting.

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Data center UPS battery handbook

Your UPS battery is essential to maintaining power protection for your data center equipment. This handbook is the complete guide to battery options and how to keep batteries healthy and longer-lasting.

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Disaster Recovery checklist

Disaster can strike at a moment’s notice. Whether it’s an everyday power outage or calamitous weather event, you need a recovery plan at the ready. The following offers general steps for assessing a current disaster recovery (DR) plan or building one from scratch.

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Network connectivity and power management 101 handbook

This handbook covers the basics of connectivity including network cards, cybersecurity, remote monitoring and tips for selecting a power management solution. If you want to better understand why monitoring and managing your power infrastructure is important or just want to gather some ammunition to convince your boss of this, enjoy the visual guides, FAQs, best practices and questions to consider included in this guide.

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Disaster Recovery checklist

Disaster can strike at a moment’s notice. Whether it’s an everyday power outage or calamitous weather event, you need a recovery plan at the ready. The following offers general steps for assessing a current disaster recovery (DR) plan or building one from scratch.

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Network connectivity and power management 101 handbook

This handbook covers the basics of connectivity including network cards, cybersecurity, remote monitoring and tips for selecting a power management solution. If you want to better understand why monitoring and managing your power infrastructure is important or just want to gather some ammunition to convince your boss of this, enjoy the visual guides, FAQs, best practices and questions to consider included in this guide.

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Quick guide to power distribution

Power distribution is facilitated through different pieces of equipment that take the power conditioned by your uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and send it to your IT equipment. Power distribution units like rack PDUs can manage and even control energy consumption in smaller environments as well as large data center applications. Distributing power efficiently results in reduced operating costs and increased reliability. This guide should help you get familiar with power distribution, gain interesting insights and learn key considerations for future IT investments.

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Disaster preparedness and avoidance handbook

Today’s information-driven organizations depend on the 24/7 availability of their IT infrastructures. Not only are downtime costs enormous, but data integrity is threatened by an ever-growing array of hazards, including power outages, natural disasters, equipment failure, and user error. Additionally, as data centers become more software-defined, they are increasingly vulnerable to software problems and cybersecurity-related catastrophes.

While virtualization of the data center has proven to be revolutionary for IT professionals—providing increased reliability, flexibility, and control, among other benefits—in order to fully realize these advantages, DR processes must also be optimized. This can create some unique challenges as IT professionals must focus their virtualization disaster recovery strategy around backing up and recovering virtual machines (VMs) as opposed to physical servers.

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Disaster recovery checklist

Use Eaton’s disaster recovery checklist to ensure your company is prepared for an emergency or disaster. Included are specifics on department head onboarding, IT inventory assessment, network structures, diagrams, back up data procedures and more. Whether you want to assess the state of your current disaster recovery plan or start a grassroots recovery proposal, refer to this checklist to determine what’s needed to prepare for and respond to threats.

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