APC Expands its Award-Winning Modular Power Solutions Portfolio with the Symmetra® PX 250/500kW for Medium and Large-Scale Data Centers

World’s first truly modular UPS system
Offering the Highest Efficiency and Redundancy in its Class, the APC Symmetra PX Utilizes 25kW Power Modules to Provide High Density Scalability up to 500kW

New Delhi, October 13, 2009 – APC by Schneider Electric, a leading brand in the power protection category, today unveiled the new APC Symmetra® PX 250/500kW Three-Phase uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system for the data center market .

Offering ultra-high efficiency, nearly silent operation and N+1 redundancy, the APC Symmetra PX 250/500kW is the world’s first truly modular UPS system that easily scales in 25kW increments up to 500kW. This new modular power solution is ideal for growth oriented high density and higher power installations, key to maximizing virtualization efforts in the data center.

“By giving IT managers the ability to right-size power and runtime as demand grows or as higher levels of availability dictate, the APC Symmetra PX 250/500kW thus eliminates waste and lowers overall total cost of ownership. Further more, as a modular UPS system, it helps reduce energy consumption and space, both of which are key drivers of virtualization” said G.B. Ravichandra, Country Sales Director- Enterprise Business, APC by Schneider.

“The Symmetra PX 250/500kW is a perfect example of innovation in design that has helped in creating a simple, redundant architecture that ensures high availability and scalability”, he further added.

The APC Symmetra PX 250/500kW offers 25kW ultra-high efficiency double conversion online inverter power modules, extended life hot-swap batteries, a large touch-screen graphical user interface, and a side-mounted maintenance bypass panel with subfeed distribution. The new Symmetra PX offers maximum data center configuration flexibility, allowing the unit to easily fit in the same row as IT equipment, or against a wall to save floor space. In the future the Symmetra PX 250/500kW will be capable of being paralleled up to 2 MW. It is the ideal platform for business critical applications running in today’s medium to large data centers.

APC’s Symmetra PX 250/500kW UPS offers a truly modular, scalable system consisting of dedicated and redundant modules – power, intelligence, battery and communications – all engineered into a design that makes installation, future expansion and serviceability easy and efficient. APC’s highly manageable Symmetra PX 250/500kW also features automated predictive diagnostic capabilities, increased overload capacity, and on-the-fly firmware upgrades, which result in a highly redundant, efficient and simplified UPS architecture. These features and others help increase overall data center reliability by mitigating the risk of human error, a leading cause of data center downtime.

The APC Symmetra PX 250/500kW UPS is currently available in India in configurations scaling from 25kW to 500kW. This new solution is highly manageable through APC’s comprehensive management solutions, including InfraStruXure® Central. A browser accessible, user-friendly tool, InfraStruXure Central provides monitoring of power, cooling, and environmental management at the rack or room level. For more information about APC’s innovative modular power solutions, please visit www.apc.com or call 1800 4254 877 / 1800 4254 272.

About APC

APC by Schneider Electric is a global leader in critical power and cooling services, providing industry leading product, software and systems for desktops to data centres.

APC is part of the €18.3 billion Schneider Group which is the recognized global leader in Electricity and Automation Management with operations in 100 countries and over 114,000 employees. .
Backed by the experience and wide network of Schneider Electric, APC delivers well planned, flawlessly installed and maintained solutions for industrial, enterprise, small and medium business, as well as home environments.
APC solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, physical security and design and management software, including APC’s InfraStruXure® architecture, the industry’s most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution.
In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS Systems to form Schneider Electric’s Critical Power & Cooling Services Business Unit, which recorded 2008 revenue of €2.6 billion (including APC-MGE sales of $3.7 billion) and employed 12,000 people worldwide. For more information on APC, please visit www.apc.com/in.
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