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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 June 2006
Data centre growth fuels UPS demand
The maturing data-centre market is experiencing continued growth, and this in turn has fuelled the demand for UPS systems.
The maturing data-centre market is experiencing continued growth due to its widespread popularity among corporate clients Also key to the market's ongoing expansion has been the need for more storage and facility upgrades to suit evolving business needs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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This in turn has fuelled the demand for UPS systems, with UPS manufacturers working closely with data centres to provide systems with high redundancy, better monitoring capability and improved reliability.
Frost and Sullivan finds that the European market for UPSs in data centres earned revenues of Eur 114.6 million in 2005 and estimates this to reach Eur 263.4 million in 2012.
UPS systems have been an integral part of the critical equipment in data centres.
With the increasing need for 24/7 power availability in many sectors, fully redundant UPS systems are being installed to provide protection against power failures.
"The power disturbances across many European countries in 2004 have alerted data-centre managers to the term 'business continuity' and, combined with the initiatives of UPS suppliers in creating awareness, have significantly boosted demand for UPS systems", says Frost and Sullivan Research Analyst Mahesh Venkateswaran.
Notwithstanding such optimistic projections, one of the biggest challenges for UPS suppliers will be to effectively distribute power in a given data centre facility.
Since power concentration varies across different areas in a facility, UPS systems are likely to cater to this shifting demand.
For example, a conventional rack consumes 2kW of power, and a blade server with the same footprint could require up to 24kW.
Hence, an UPS system for an infrastructure with mission-critical applications will need to be flexible to divert power to any point inside the given facility.
"Since 85% of existing data centres have centralised power architecture, addressing the demands of new servers will require integration of centralised distributed systems along with proper cable management, monitoring and cooling", concludes Venkateswaran.
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