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APC and MGE UPS Systems recently combined to form a US$3 billion business unit of Schneider Electric, addressing the market for critical power and cooling services. Together, APC and MGE are able to supply large and small enterprises a range of products centered on uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units and racks. Another key product is design and management software, including APC's InfraStruXure architecture, the industry's only integrated power, cooling, and management solution.
The combined company's 12,000 employees help customers address today's unprecedented power, cooling and management challenges. The parent company, Schneider Electric, has 112,000 employees and operations in 190 countries, with 2006 annual sales of US$18 billion.
"APC and MGE are both customer-focused, and committed to innovation and world-class service," said Chun Lauener, senior vice president Greater China, APC. "APC and MGE products have a vital role to play in ensuring long-term data availability from desktop to datacenter, and to the factory floor."
Overhaul in need
According to Gartner Research, half of all data centers will need to overhaul their power and cooling solutions within the next few years. At the same time, the number of professionals qualified to design and run modern datacenters will decline by 45% (AFCOM). In other words, the industry has a lot of work to do, with fewer qualified industry experts than ever before.
"APC and MGE offer the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for all critical applications," said Lauener. "We also have the industry's broadest service organization, with more than 1,500 dedicated professionals and almost 100 million man-hours in field expertise at your service, in more than 100 countries."
"In addition, we have the industry's largest R&D investment, committed to delivering innovative solutions, such as the award-winning and patented InfrastruXure power and cooling architecture, and the MGE GALAXY/EPS range, which powers some of the largest data centers in the world," continued Lauener. "And we have the industry's most comprehensive design and management software." |
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Design trends
APC's in-row architecture is the newest innovation in datacenter cooling technology. "With this approach, cooling can be deployed in a predictable manner in any data center environment," said Lauener. "Placing the unit in the row of racks moves the source of cooling closer to the heat load. This minimizes air mixing and provides a predictable cooling solution."
As hardware densities rise, predictable cooling becomes more critical. In today's data centers, traditional cooling approaches involve complex air distribution systems that are unpredictable and leave many IT and facilities managers struggling to find solutions to cool new IT technologies being deployed. The capabilities of the latest IT technologies are being used in industries like medical and financial markets, where failure is not an option. To ensure maximum uptime, industries like these are looking at in-row cooling to predictably cool the data center.
The winning product
APC's winning product, the Smart-UPS VT, is ideal for small data centers, large retail stores and regional offices, and over 10 million have been installed. This model provides centralized three-phase power protection, dual-mains input, automatic and maintenance bypasses, and scalable runtime with hot-swappable batteries for increased availability.
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