The Powerbase of Digital Storage Centers: Control and Power Distribution Products

February 14, 2024

Noark dives into the world of digital storage centers and see how control and power distribution products keep these critical information hubs running smoothly. While they may not be the most glamorous gadgets in the tech industry, these essential components play a vital role in ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and safety of digital storage centers. So, let’s embark on this journey to explore how control and power distribution products are the unsung champions of the digital storage world.

Ensuring Reliable Power Distribution

Digital storage centers are power-hungry systems – they demand a constant and reliable supply of electricity to function. This is where power distribution products come into play. These products, such as intelligent power distribution units (PDUs), are designed to provide a safe and efficient way of distributing power to racks, servers, and other critical equipment.

PDUs go beyond just distributing power; they also monitor energy consumption, measure temperature and humidity, and even allow remote access for management and control. With advanced features like power monitoring and outlet-level switching capabilities, PDUs give data center administrators the ability to optimize power usage, prevent overloads, and identify potential issues before they escalate into major problems.

Streamlining Control and Management

In the fast-paced world of digital storage centers, control is key. Control and monitoring products, like console servers and networked power switches, offer valuable management capabilities that keep data center operations in check.

Console servers, for instance, enable secure remote access to network and server infrastructure to troubleshoot issues and perform routine maintenance without physically being present. With console servers, data center administrators can gain immediate access to the command-line interface of multiple devices, saving time and effort while minimizing downtime.

Networked power switches, on the other hand, allow administrators to remotely control the power supply to individual devices or groups of devices. These control products are invaluable in ensuring smooth operations, reducing human error, and increasing efficiency within digital storage centers.

Safety First: Protecting Equipment and Personnel

Digital storage centers are not only responsible for safeguarding vast amounts of data but also protecting the equipment and personnel within their walls. Control and power distribution products play a crucial role in ensuring a safe environment.

For instance, intelligent PDUs come equipped with surge protection, temperature monitoring, and circuit breaker capabilities, preventing electrical mishaps that could damage expensive equipment or even endanger lives. Additionally, these products provide accurate power usage information, aiding in energy efficiency initiatives and reducing the carbon footprint of digital storage centers.

Key Products for Digital Storage Center Protection

Noark offers a large range of control and power distribution products, such as:

These power distribution products provide the critical wire and component protection you need   in your data centers. Noark’s motor control products provide for the controlling of fans and ventilation that dissipates the heat in these storage facilities ensuring that your equipment is  able to reach full operational performance while reducing the risk of failure.

Noark Electric’s Capabilities

With safety at the forefront of their products and actions, Noark is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of low-voltage electrical components. Manufacturers can rely on us for electrical control and electrical protection components in low- or high-volume. As well as their advanced manufacturing space of 12 million square feet, they operate domestic warehousing. All Noark products are tested and certified to the highest industry standard and supported by their world-class team.

Leverage Noark products for your Digital Storage Centers

As Noark wraps up their dive into the realm of control and power distribution products in digital storage centers, it’s clear that these unsung heroes are the power infrastructure base of these complex facilities. From efficient power distribution to streamlined control and enhanced safety, Noark products provide will provide the stability and reliability needed to keep the digital world spinning.

To keep up to date on more insights into the electrical components that keep their world running, subscribe to the Noark Newsletter today to receive monthly updates, free resources, and more. Or, get in touch with a member of the Noark team to request a quote.

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