News Releases - 2008

Date: 26 February 2008

Eaton Corporation is proud to announce that its Powerware® BladeUPS™ won the gold award in the Data Centre Backup Power category for SearchDataCenter.com’s 2007 Product of the Year Awards. The prominent awards program recognizes outstanding companies whose products or services have best responded to the need for performance, durability and innovation in the data centre.

Data centre managers are facing a space crunch. As businesses grow, so does their IT infrastructure, and data centre managers need to squeeze in all those extra servers, power distribution units (PDUs), and yes, UPSs. So the best kind of backup power will be compact and powerful, either through a small form factor or the ability to scale power capacity within the same footprint.

Traditionally, companies have bought more infrastructure than they need. The practice is highly inefficient, though, so more people are turning to smaller, modular equipment. Further, people are less certain about their future infrastructure needs and are thus building out data centres incrementally.

Eaton’s Powerware BladeUPS is a rack-based, uninterruptible power system (UPS) designed and optimised for today’s high-powered blade servers and high-density computing environments. It is a three-phase system that delivers industry-leading energy efficiency, scalability and flexibility.

According to SearchDataCenter.com, finalists for this year’s event include products from a wide range of providers in the data centre industry. Divided into eight product categories, the 2007 Product of the Year Awards were judged by the SearchDataCenter.com staff who evaluated each of the products on six criteria: ease of integration into existing environments, innovation, functionality, manageability, performance and value.

The judges at SearchDataCenter.com recognised that today’s data centre managers are facing limited space and increasing power demands; therefore the best products should be compact and powerful. Eaton’s Powerware BladeUPS is designed to build out an infrastructure in a modular fashion, providing for an incrementally built data centre that meets the present need and can be built upon as needed.