Critical Power Overview
Critical Power Solutions for Data Centers and other Mission Critical Environments
- Why choose IIS as your trusted advisor for power solutions
- The basic components of a mission critical power system
- Key power product solutions from IIS
- Services – Design and Project Management
Why IIS Group?
At IIS Group, we provide trusted advice — helping you make smart choices when you are spending money to improve your data center’s physical infrastructure. We offer best-of-breed tools for managing and controlling the assets in your data centers, while facilitating provisioning and planning for high availability. Our industry-leading expertise will help you to establish and maintain your data center for optimal performance, reliability and security. IIS designs and implements redundant N+1, 2N or 2N+1 power solutions based on your specific business requirements.

Power: Nothing is more Critical in the Operation of your Data Center
Clean, uninterrupted power is a basic and universal requirement for every data center. IIS has the expertise to help you identify and implement the optimal product solutions for your power chain:
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
- Power Distribution Units (PDUs) – Room and Rack based
- Surge Protection Devices
- Transfer Switches
- Backup Generators
- Power Distribution Busway
In addition, we will help you implement software solutions that allow you to monitor and manage the data center power flowing in and through your environment on an ongoing basis.

Key Power Product Solutions
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Backup Systems
UPS systems provide clean, reliable, and secure power, with protection from blackouts, brownouts, and surges. IIS Group has an extensive selection of product solutions including:
- Modular/Scalable UPS
- Parallel UPS
- Network Rack and Tower UPS
- Battery-Free UPS
APC White Paper 1: The Different Types of UPS Systems
Power Distribution Units (rack based)
IIS Group offers best-in-class solutions for power to the equipment in your racks. We also can customize products for special situations. Specific requirements — form factors, power density, outlet and plug configurations, redundancy support, and management features – are all factors to consider in deploying the best solution.
Our solutions include:
- Switched PDU
- Metered/Monitored PDU
- Basic (non monitored) PDU
- Rack based Automatic Transfer Switch
Additional critical power products from IIS Group: Power Distribution Systems (in room), Surge Protection, Generators, Switchgear, and Busway.
Design and Project Management Services
IIS Group assists clients putting facilities and technology together to work as holistic systems. Our solutions help organizations improve productivity and efficiency in data centers, security command rooms, technical service desks, network operating centers, and other mission critical facilities. Whether your project requires server racks, reliable power, precision cooling, monitoring or management tools, physical or electronic security, IIS Group can design and implement solutions for your physical infrastructure needs.
We address your problems in a step-by-step process, identifying an economical solution to your physical infrastructure issues. We regularly review new technology and systems. Clients of IIS Group obtain state of the art scalable solutions with the flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of your data center infrastructure.
Mission Critical Magazine Article-Emerson Network Power Survey Shows Gaps In Emergency Backup Power Systems and Monitoring Controls
APC White Paper 114: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers











