Know your tools to back up critical systems you're responsible for
Every UPS is the sum of its parts. So knowing what to look for when choosing products and services to back up the critical systems you're responsible for is an important first step to designing the right solution.
The following considerations are key when planning protection for your operations and overall business continuity:
Modularity: taking a modular approach to design with power modules ensures easy scalability when requirements change.
Efficiency: advanced technologies such as VMMS (Variable Module Managed System) offer up to 25% OPEX reduction, with ESS (Energy Saver System) delivering up to 75% OPEX savings.
Availability: the more redundancy you build in – at power module, UPS or full system level – the higher the availability and greater the resilience, at increasing cost.
Cybersecurity: meeting all relevant industry standards – such as such as IEC-62443-4-2 or UL2900-1 – and having third-party validation is key to protect your business against cyberthreats.
Smart power management: maintain business continuity with advanced intelligent software.
The right service package: warranty, maintenance, technical support and emergency response are all critical for system effectiveness.
Make UPS planning easy with our six-step process
Eaton's straightforward, six-step process to designing a UPS system is your fast route to making the right protection choices.
6 key questions to make choosing a UPS easier
Our proven framework helps identify your needs around single- or three-phase feed for lighter and heavier loads, required power, centralised or distributed architecture to protect whole buildings or individual equipment, runtime to inform battery choice, redundancy and options for data leverage.
Download our free critical power protection fundamentals guide
In our comprehensive guide, we delve deeper into UPS systems design considerations. From the advantages of modularity, how advanced technologies are boosting cost and operational efficiencies, how redundancy impacts availability and more. Download the guide for free.
A UPS should be measured by its value, not by its cost
You could buy a UPS based on its list price. Or you could buy a UPS that works out cheaper over its lifetime. Eaton designs its UPSs with a low total cost of ownership (TCO) in mind and equips them with unique technologies to make them more efficient and to reduce maintenance and servicing costs. Our TCO calculator and comparison tool helps you to quantify the value and compare the total cost of an Eaton UPS against different UPSs. Discover how much you could be saving:
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