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FEATURES Clinching first place at the Games
Hailed as the most successful Commonwealth Games to date, Borri was chosen as a key provider of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) solutions for the event recently held in Glasgow.
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S7. Can ‘Eco’ play a part in your critical power path? Protecting the critical power path to mission sensitive IT within any data centre is essential. The most common form of protection being the installation of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and suitably sized battery and standby generator. Here, Eco Power Supplies explain further
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S8. Reaping the benefits Kenny Green, technical support manager at Uninterruptible Power Supplies, discusses parallel redundant system optimisation and the benefits of modular UPS design
S10. What can be done about poor power quality? Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) are used in many applications to provide back-up power in the event of a power failure. However, as Rob Morris, country manager at Powervar UK explains, this is not enough and only tackles the obvious problems
S13. Powerstar installed in over 400 UK hospitality venues The Powerstar voltage optimisation system has been successfully installed in over 400 Whitbread hotels and restaurants, adding to the many FTSE 100 companies for whom Powerstar is saving energy
S15. Clean and reliable power Jorge Aguinaga, manager, 3-phase UPS product management for Eaton’s Power Quality Business in EMEA, explores the issues surrounding the quality of future power supplies and looks at the technology being developed to help
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S16. What should you expect? As Critical Power Supplies explain, rapid advances in technology has made the role of the reseller increasingly important in terms of keeping companies up to date with their power protection
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S18. Maintaining your UPS The upkeep and maintenance of a UPS system is vitally important in order for it to function optimally. Here Leo Craig, general manager of Riello UPS, offers some guidance
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S6. Making IT work for Sovereign Data Centre During the development of its new data centre in Hertfordshire, independent IT service and business solution specialist SDC encountered the challenge of how to overcome the common problem of structural pillars or columns when designing a data centre space
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