As power costs soar and the demand for power in data centres grows saving energy is always going to be high on the to do list for man­agers, users and owners. Gartner have release an in depth report showing how to save up to 1 million kilo­watt hours per year. The main areas for best prac­tice improve­ments are; Plug ...

Usually seen when sizing unin­ter­rupt­able power sup­plies the Volt-Amp is often con­fused with Watts, they are not the same. The power require­ment of a piece of equip­ment is expressed in Watts of Volt Amps (VA), the most common example being of course the 100W light bulb. A Watt is the actual ...

The increas­ing incid­ence of power cuts across UK and Europe has alerted com­pan­ies depend­ent on crit­ical power to the neces­sity for their oper­a­tions to be pro­tec­ted by standby equip­ment, such as Gen­er­at­ors and Unin­ter­rupt­ible Power Sup­plies (UPS). What is less well ...