Best Practices for Scaling Data Center Power Capacity and Avoiding Hidden Costs

Best Practices for Scaling Data Center Power Capacity and Avoiding Hidden Costs
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As energy costs rise, excess capacity in enterprise data centers has become a financial and ecological burden. Read this article to learn how using a stepped, phase-in approach and deploying scalable uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems can help organizations avoid the hidden costs of conventional UPS designs—creating an infrastructure that can expand efficiently and cost-effectively as IT loads grow.

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Several best practices can help organizations when designing and deploying a scalable power infrastructure:

Apply a stepped, phase-in approach to help manage uncertainty and avoid the wasteful underutilization of capacity caused by overbuilding to an inflated target capacity.
Use total cost of ownership to evaluate different architectures up-front pricing is only part of the system costs over time.
Use a scalable UPS system to help avoid the downtime typically required when upgrading power capacity in a conventional system.

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