Advances in enterprise computing and storage technologies are demanding a change in enterprise power protection technology. The reliability and availability of these machines depends on technological advances such as RAID storage, server mirroring, server clustering, and fail-over recovery. Despite these advances in storage and processing availability, the mid-sized power protection industry has been populated with only legacy UPSs-centralized box-type UPSs that create multiple single points of failure.
These UPSs offer little in the way of redundancy and scalability. According to one frustrated director of the Uninterruptible Uptime User System "a single legacy UPS failure can wipe out three years worth of carefully planned and controlled systems uptime."
But that all changes, with an exciting new power protection technology from CROSS introducing the world's first Power RAID, a completely new category of power protection system designed by CROSS to meet today's customer demand for scalable and highly available power solutions.
A Power RAID is a single unit composed of modular components. This modular architecture provides the foundation for building and scaling near-continuous availability power systems with a flexible range of power capacity. Power RAID redundancy reduces the risk of systems downtime. By using an N+1 redundant Power RAID, customers ensure maximum uptime and near-continuous system availability.
Power RAID scalability protects your investment in power protection by enabling expansion or reconfiguration simply by adding or removing modules. Scalable runtime allows extended back-up time with the addition of Battery Modules. Scalable power capacity enables you to pay as you grow by adding Power Modules in increments of N+1.
Power RAID serviceability decreases the cost of systems ownership. Modular and hot-swappable components make maintenance simple.
Power RAID manageability means you can use CROSS exiting software and environment, as well as to shut down multiple servers and reboot individual locked up machines.
| ¢Ñ Forward | ¢Ñ Scalability | ¢Ñ Redundancy | ¢Ñ Manageability | ¢ÑServiceability |
