Latin America. A brief power outage in a company's data center, point of sale, or any other IT application can have an incalculable economic impact. The redundancy of electrical energy is one of the most delicate and fundamental components to achieve its optimal operation.
"To mention an example, when the servers are turned off inadequately due to a failure in the electrical power, the boot partitions of the hard disk could be damaged, causing lack of continuity in the operation because it would have to spend several hours reinstalling the operating system" explained Miguel Monterrosas, Director of Technical Support of Tripp Lite Mexico "If this happens in a marketing company, it would lose sales and even customers, by not having access to inventory, nor to the billing to serve them."
Although the backup time of a common UPS system provides redundancy for a few minutes to be able to properly shut down and close IT applications, the UPS, as could happen with any technological device, could also fail during the time it takes to enter the power plant, which would be huge for a company's mission-critical applications.
Under this planning, what would happen to a business, a call center, the medical equipment of a hospital, the communications and processing area of the financial sector or any other business, without redundancy or adequate electrical power backup?
That is why for large, medium and small companies with critical applications Monterrosas recommends adopting:
Three-phase UPS systems that integrate N+1 internal redundancy configuration, technology that incorporates additional power modules in order to ensure the availability of the UPS in the event of the failure of any component of the same or during its maintenance.
Three-phase UPS systems with redundant parallel technology that allow the primary UPS to be interconnected with a secondary UPS to provide backup power.
PDU (power distribution unit) with ATS technology (automatic transfer switch), allows you to connect two UPS systems of different brand or capacity to generate power redundancy. This option is ideal for companies that have a small budget as it allows them to use any UPS equipment.
