Powering the Cloud: Using Intelligent rPDUs to Prevent the Storms of Downtime

Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, and increasing. According to RightScale’s 2016 State of the Cloud Survey, private, public and hybrid cloud migration has risen significantly in the past year1. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal estimated that more than one-third of all companies will have at least one public cloud workload by 2018.

Many business stakeholders are being drawn to the cloud for its implicit benefits: scalability, resiliency, enhanced potential for collaboration, lower overhead (for public deployments) and more remote capabilities.

While it is hard to find fault with many of these benefits, there is one concern that has cropped up on occasion, and its impact has been felt by organizations with even the deepest pockets: data center downtime. In particular, downtime that results from power failures has wreaked havoc on organizations in all industries, costing as much as $7,900 each minute, according to the Ponemon Institute. Now more than ever, the importance of optimized power infrastructure in the data center is mission critical. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted Date: August 20, 2019
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