Power Protection FEATURED ARTICLE

Basically the racks that you use need a lot of power and PDUs are there to ensure they get it when and where it needs to be delivered. Minuteman offers a range of products to meet this need, some equipped with amp meters, which help you see how much power the different units are drawing to help with your energy cost budgeting.

The company’s units don’t have on/off switches. As Knecht explained, “you don’t want to have someone accidentally kill the power to your entire rack.” Makes sense – talk about your original “plug and play” approach.

The company offers products to address specific needs that are not usually met, Knecht said. For example, if an IT director has equipment spaced out across a campus, or the country, it’s expensive to send technicians around the country to reboot equipment, so Minuteman offers ways of doing that via the Web or a Touchtone phone.

And that can be a huge benefit. Recently, TMC’s Susan J. Campbell wrote, “The education sector depends on consistent power availability as much as the commercial sector, and perhaps even a little more. After all, schools today rely on power protection to ensure that their networks remain running so that emergency response systems are readily available and security systems are reliable.”

Minuteman’s been long known in the industry. As TMC (News - Alert) reported recently,“power protection leader Minuteman offers a series of products that ensures that your security system stays on guard even in the event of power outages, brownouts or surges.”

Minuteman’s product line includes LineGuard surge suppressors, designed to protect cameras and DVR units, Schmelkin noted, as well as the standby EnSpire series; the line interactive Entrust (News - Alert), PRO-E, PRO-RT, and EnterprisePlus series UPSs for small to medium sized security systems, and full on-line Endeavor UPSs for enterprise-wide systems requiring multiple hours of runtime.