Posted to News on 28th Aug 2013, 14:47
Survey shows more people could benefit from power management
Eaton has conducted a poll of IT Professionals, revealing that 62 per cent of respondents only use their uninterruptible power supply (UPS) as a battery backup facility. These users could therefore be increasing their personal workload and missing out on uptime advantages because they are performing some power management tasks manually.
Steve Spicer of Eaton explains: "It seems that not all IT professionals realise there is much more to modern UPSs than providing power supply support. One respondent told us that they get an email alert when their system goes onto battery power, at which point they have to intervene manually. They were quite surprised when we told them they did not need to and that their UPS can manage everything from automatic live migration of virtual machines during power disruptions to a graceful shutdown of computers, virtual machines and servers during an extended power outage."
The poll, which was conducted by Eaton at Spiceworks' recent SpiceWorld London user conference, also revealed that 85 per cent of IT professionals who responded had experienced a power outage within the last 12 months and of these, 33 per cent had taken up to five hours to recover.
Eaton conducted the poll to find out more about its customers' buying processes and at which point they consider the power management requirements, particularly in relation to virtualising an IT environment. The answers revealed, however, that the interpretation of the term 'power management' varies from installing a UPS to provide emergency power, to using software that integrates with virtualisation platforms and automatically triggers the movement of virtual machines to unaffected devices or, when necessary, initiates a graceful shutdown of affected IT equipment during power outages.
To learn more about Eaton's power quality products and systems, go to www.eaton.eu/powerquality. For more news follow Eaton on Twitter via @Eaton_UPS or go to the Eaton EMEA LinkedIn company page.
