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  • "It has been more of a cost of doing business and maintaining our systems. We use it more as an insurance policy to ensure that our medical records stay up and running. The loss of revenue would have a bigger impact to our organization if our systems were not up and operating. An outage over a 24-hour period could easily be in the $300,000 range, which would be pretty substantial. We are a three million square foot hospital with 380 beds, so it would impact us quickly."
  • "The UPSs are saving us approximately $50,000 a year."
  • "They are around $50,000 to $70,000 depending on the options and the modules that we get."
  • "It saves our company money. Because if there is an outage, it is approximately $1 million a minute for an outage. Since we are a very large credit union, outages would be very expensive for us."
  • "I have a maintenance contract with Eaton, which has been very good. The notifications that we receive, we use email to my team, and they work well."
  • "The cost per unit, as a rough estimate, is $300,000 per UPS 750-block."
  • "When you bid them out, they're all within a single-digit percentage point of each other... The cost of Eaton's service is competitive because we bid it out. I bid the service for all my units on campus: APCs, Lieberts, Eatons, because we've got a big hodgepodge of everything. Eaton won on price."
  • "The pricing is far more competitive than APC or Liebert, the other two big players. And Eaton's service is phenomenal."
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    Eaton Powerware, Powerware 9300 Series
    Symmetra PX
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    Overview

    Eaton UPS is a power management provider that delivers a comprehensive portfolio of uninterruptible power supply, backup power, power distribution, and power management solutions, which protect you from a host of threats, including power outages, surges, and lightning strikes. Eaton’s offerings are designed to deliver superior flexibility, maximum efficiency, and unprecedented reliability for network closets, server rooms, and data centers of all sizes.

    Eaton UPS Key Features

    Eaton’s power quality portfolio encompasses a comprehensive offering of power management solutions all from a single-source provider.

    • Complete backup solution: Protect against all nine power problems: power failures, power sags, power surges, under-voltage, electrical line noise, over-voltage, frequency variation, switching transients, and harmonic distortion. Minimize the risk for component stress, burned circuit boards, data crashes, and program failures.

    • LCD display: LCD interface for viewing current UPS status, feature adjustments, alarm settings, and servicing lockouts.

    • Central monitoring and event management: Monitor your entire system using Eaton’s web-based dashboard from a single screen to see a real-time picture of power quality and energy usage. From the dashboard you can set up and manage alarms and system events.

    • Comprehensive reporting: Eaton’s reporting feature allows you to see past individual measurements, trend graphs, and events. It analyzes the complex data from multiple sites and automatically consolidates the information into simple graphical reports.

    • Ethernet connectivity: Connect your Eaton UPS directly to your Ethernet network and to the internet and monitor it from your desktop without installing any additional software.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Eaton UPS stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its extensive monitoring and reporting tools, its scalability, and that it is a stable and very reliable product.

    Brad G., a technical services manager at a government company, notes, “The fact that they're reliable and that they notify us whenever the line power drops are the only things we really need. All our UPS's have been available and up whenever power outages have happened. So far, the battery life, from my observation, seems better than average. It was one of the features that Eaton had described to us. They have a certain way of charging the batteries and keeping them charged so that they actually last longer.”

    Juno C., a radiation oncologist at East Oregon Cancer Center, writes, "The battery life seems to be pretty good. I don't have a lot of experience with other units of its size, but it does a good job of keeping our unit up. There is no active power management. It just keeps the power up. We haven't had any power failures that are long enough to completely drain the battery. It's been good for small power failures. In addition, I can access the built-in webpage on the UPS and use that to look at the status. It's on all the time and monitoring. It gives us an email once a month telling us that our device is working properly. It will also list the power events that happened in that month."

    Symmetra PX, modular system, is a 3 Phase UPS power protection system designed to provide high levels of availability. Made up of dedicated and redundant modules-- power, intelligence, battery and bypass, all engineered into a design that is easily and efficiently serviceable, this architecture can scale power and runtime as demand grows or as higher levels of availability are required. Symmetra PX serves as the core power train that drives InfraStruXure systems for small and medium data centers but can also power individual "zones" of larger data centers. Symmetra PX features self-diagnostic capabilities and standardized modules which mitigate the risk of human error resulting in increased overall data center reliability.
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    Eaton UPS is ranked 2nd in Data Center Power Solutions while Schneider Electric-APC Symmetra PX is ranked 4th in Data Center Power Solutions. Eaton UPS is rated 9.0, while Schneider Electric-APC Symmetra PX is rated 0.0. On the other hand, Eaton UPS is most compared with Schneider Electric-APC Smart-UPS VT, Liebert NX, Tripplite SmartPro, Gamatronic Mega Power+ and Emerson Network Power Npower, whereas Schneider Electric-APC Symmetra PX is most compared with MGE Galaxy, Schneider Electric-APC Smart-UPS VT and Liebert NX.

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