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PowerChute brings energy management to life

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 their power consumption with fact-based energy, cost and CO₂ emissions reporting on a per Smart-UPS basis.

Version 9.0 has the ability to calculate the cost of a Smart-UPS’s 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 and byproducts of their power consumption, PowerChute enables customers to maximise the use of all of their Smart-UPS products and truly use their energy better.

“For the first time, our customers can see the energy being consumed, the cost of this energy 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 ships with all APC Smart-UPS 5kVA 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 APC, Pierre Lintzer, +27 (0)11 465 5414, [email protected]

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