Data centers need an extremely high degree of electrical reliability and safety. An awareness of power quality issues and how to address them, down to the rack level, is necessary for those who want to protect their bottom lines from the prohibitive downtime costs.

In general, power quality issues can make power infrastructure unstable, causing unforeseeable rebooting of IT equipment or leading to more critical scenarios such as equipment overheating, a circuit breaker or fuse malfunction, or IT hardware damage.

As power quality patterns become recognizable over time, read this whitepaper to explore how a long-term monitoring strategy can help identify what processes are leading to a critical situation to prevent similar cases from occurring again.