APC's PowerChute Business Edition 9.0
August 2011
IT in Manufacturing
APC by Schneider Electric has announced PowerChute Business Edition 9.0, the first uninterruptible power supply (UPS) software to provide energy reporting for IT equipment. PowerChute Business Edition 9.0 moves beyond APC’s safe system shutdown and UPS management to help customers understand power consumption with fact-based energy, cost and CO2 emissions reporting on a per Smart-UPS basis.
The new software has the ability to calculate the cost of a UPS’ power draw in kWh using the appropriate local currency, which provides an accurate depiction of how the energy use of protected equipment affects the bottom line.
Bringing visibility to the cost enables better use of Smart-UPSs and lowers energy consumption. “For the first time, our customers can see the energy being consumed, the cost of this and the CO2 being produced by equipment protected by our Smart-UPS,” says Gina Santos, distribution account manager at APC by Schneider Electric. “Customers rely on APC to provide safe, dependable protection from downtime, data loss and hardware damage. PowerChute Business Edition 9.0 goes far beyond that by taking the guesswork out of energy management.”
PowerChute Business Edition 9.0 ships with all APC Smart-UPS 5 kVA and below and is also available for download at www.apc.com/tools/download/index.cfm. This version provides UPS monitoring and centralised risk assessment reporting for up to five Smart-UPS units. Customers can also purchase a version to monitor up to 25 Smart-UPS devices from the APC website or via the usual distribution channels.
For more information contact Pierre Lintzer, APC, +27 (0)11 465 5414, [email protected], www.apc.com
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