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The Eaton UPS and Power Management Fundamentals Handbook

From plug and receptacle charts and facts about power problems to an overview of various UPS topologies and factors affecting battery life, you’ll find a wealth of pertinent resources designed to help you develop the optimum solution. This handbook is your one-stop source for essential information ... whether you need power protection for small, medium or large data centers; health care facilities; or other environments in which ensuring uptime and safeguarding data are critical.

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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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The Eaton UPS and Power Management Fundamentals Handbook

From plug and receptacle charts and facts about power problems to an overview of various UPS topologies and factors affecting battery life, you’ll find a wealth of pertinent resources designed to help you develop the optimum solution. This handbook is your one-stop source for essential information ... whether you need power protection for small, medium or large data centers; health care facilities; or other environments in which ensuring uptime and safeguarding data are critical.

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Eight everyday downtime realities—and how to handle them

Even a momentary power hiccup can cost thousands of dollars, disrupt your users, disappoint customers and tarnish your company’s reputation. Rest assured—whether it’s a hurricane taking out the grid, employees accidentally deleting files, or sudden hardware failure—Eaton’s got downtime covered. Check out these eight common downtime realities and learn how to respond when IT disaster strikes.

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14 Before-You-Buy UPS Tips

Whether it’s an electrical outage, severe weather or a cyberattack, an IT disaster can strike at any time. No matter the threat, it’s your job to ensure uptime—and UPSs are often your first line of defense. So it’s important to pick the right UPS for the right job. These tips will help you select UPS models that protect your network and maximize ROI, whether you need them for desktop terminals, network closets or your server room.

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Eight everyday downtime realities—and how to handle them

Even a momentary power hiccup can cost thousands of dollars, disrupt your users, disappoint customers and tarnish your company’s reputation. Rest assured—whether it’s a hurricane taking out the grid, employees accidentally deleting files, or sudden hardware failure—Eaton’s got downtime covered. Check out these eight common downtime realities and learn how to respond when IT disaster strikes.

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14 Before-You-Buy UPS Tips

Whether it’s an electrical outage, severe weather or a cyberattack, an IT disaster can strike at any time. No matter the threat, it’s your job to ensure uptime—and UPSs are often your first line of defense. So it’s important to pick the right UPS for the right job. These tips will help you select UPS models that protect your network and maximize ROI, whether you need them for desktop terminals, network closets or your server room.

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Eight everyday downtime realities—and how to handle them

Even a momentary power hiccup can cost thousands of dollars, disrupt your users, disappoint customers and tarnish your company’s reputation. Rest assured—whether it’s a hurricane taking out the grid, employees accidentally deleting files, or sudden hardware failure—Eaton’s got downtime covered. Check out these eight common downtime realities and learn how to respond when IT disaster strikes.

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14 Before-You-Buy UPS Tips

Whether it’s an electrical outage, severe weather or a cyberattack, an IT disaster can strike at any time. No matter the threat, it’s your job to ensure uptime—and UPSs are often your first line of defense. So it’s important to pick the right UPS for the right job. These tips will help you select UPS models that protect your network and maximize ROI, whether you need them for desktop terminals, network closets or your server room.

Get Whitepaper

The Eaton UPS and Power Management Fundamentals Handbook

From plug and receptacle charts and facts about power problems to an overview of various UPS topologies and factors affecting battery life, you’ll find a wealth of pertinent resources designed to help you develop the optimum solution.

This handbook is your one-stop source for essential information ... whether you need power protection for small, medium or large data centers; health care facilities; or other environments in which ensuring uptime and safeguarding data are critical. Download our handbook to learn more!

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The Eaton Rack and Enclosure Fundamentals Handbook

Not so many years ago, network closets, server rooms and data centers were designed from a “room to rack” standpoint. Deciding specifically where to store your technology typically came later in the design process. However, rapid technology refresh cycles, the need to rackmount more equipment and the desire for increased cooling capacities in an enclosed rack (known as an enclosure), have all begun to reverse that trend. Today, IT professionals are designing these critical workspaces with more of a “rack to room” methodology.

Traditionally, any structural support used to rackmount equipment was appropriately called a rack whether it was a two- or four-post structure. As time progressed and form factors of servers, network, storage, and power equipment have changed, the terms enclosure and cabinet also came into the mix as four-post racks were enclosed with front and rear doors and side panels.

This handbook is meant to help you choose, organize, and manage your racks and enclosures. As such, we will refer to them only as racks and enclosures throughout. In an effort to help you make the best selection for your requirements, we’ll cover some of the components within racks and enclosures as well as some tips on deploying them. Everything is interconnected, so the more you plan in advance, the better prepared you will be. For instance, it is important not to overlook power and data cables. Tangled cables can cause downtime or impede productivity, and the more racks and enclosures you are deploying, the more important an effective cable management strategy becomes.

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