News Releases - 2008

Date: 22 January 2008

Eaton Corporation’s Powerware BladeUPS Wins Gold Award from SearchDataCenter.com’s 2007 Product of the Year Awards

22 January 2008 … Eaton Corporation today announced that its Powerware® BladeUPS™ won the gold award in the Data Center Backup Power category for SearchDataCenter.com’s 2007 Product of the Year Awards. The prominent awards program recognizes outstanding companies whose products or services have best responded to the need for performance, durability and innovation in the data center.

“Data center and IT managers are continuously seeking new strategies to address their energy concerns,” said Chris Loeffler, Powerware BladeUPS product manager, Eaton Data Center Solutions. “The SearchDataCenter.com gold award reinforces Eaton’s commitment to providing its customers with innovative solutions to address their increasing power needs.”

Eaton’s Powerware BladeUPS is a rack-based, uninterruptible power system (UPS) designed and optimized for today’s high-powered blade servers and high-density computing environments. It is a three-phase system that delivers industry-leading energy efficiency, scalability and flexibility.

According to SearchDataCenter.com, finalists for this year’s event include products from a wide range of providers in the data center industry. Divided into eight product categories, the 2007 Product of the Year Awards were judged by the SearchDataCenter.com staff who evaluated each of the products on six criteria: ease of integration into existing environments, innovation, functionality, manageability, performance and value.

The judges at SearchDataCenter.com recognized that today’s data center managers are facing limited space and increasing power demands; therefore the best products should be compact and powerful. Eaton’s Powerware BladeUPS is designed to build out an infrastructure in a modular fashion, providing for an incrementally built data center that meets the present need and can be built upon as needed. 

To learn more about Eaton’s complete line of Powerware products and service portfolio, visit our Web site at www.powerware.com/EMEA/datacentersolutions/.