For IT managers, considering electricity is sometime very difficult. The reality is that they do not know what level of availability they should consider for their IT equipment, and accordingly what kind of equipment design they should do specifically. As they do not know well, there are many companies satisfied with using UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) bundled at the time of purchasing the server for each server. Also, in recent years, it has become more common to store servers stored the in data centers, but cost and area (place) are regarded as important when selecting data centers at that time. The data center's facility requirements seem to be just looking at it, often not compared. In fact, regardless of the size of the data center, the availability level is different for each data center site. It is very important to understand the power supply equipment that will drive IT that will become even more important in the future.

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In Japan, guidelines that are generally considered as a reference are the following power supply guidelines from the Japan Data Center Association (JDCC) and the Uptime Institute of the US. It is just a guideline, but depending on the importance of your IT equipment, it is important to consider N + 1 configuration and 2N configuration etc as a BCP measure.

 

At DC ASIA, we offer proposals with the appropriate TCO to achieve availability that meets your needs.