When Blue Chip decided to upgrade the power protection at its head office, it turned to Kohler Uninterruptible Power for an energy efficient solution that met all the requirements and provided peace of mind for the company and its customers.
Understanding the challenge
With over thirty years’ experience in the industry, Blue Chip provides the IT infrastructure that supports many of the UK’s largest brands. Specialising in mission critical systems through its Tier IV data centre, the Bedford-based expert offers the e-commerce backbone for a large number of high street retailers, and manages 10% of the UK’s banking traffic, keeping business running all over the world.
In addition to its IT-managed services and backup and recovery operations, Blue Chip is also one of the UK’s longest established providers of IBM system maintenance, counting eight of the top ten global IT companies as clients. Blue Chip’s head office functions as the first point of contact for customers to report an issue, making the availability of its call dispatch team business critical. Equally, the building also houses the company’s ERP system, supporting the extensive stock holding Blue Chip manages as part of its maintenance contracts.
Supporting these essential applications was a number of existing UPS, which had been in place for almost ten years. Whilst still fully operational, and with adequate levels of redundancy, the age of the system and its energy efficiency credentials led Eamonn Sheridan, Blue Chip’s data centre and facilities manager, to instigate a review, the purpose of which was to understand how a new UPS solution could meet the current and future demand whilst increasing energy efficiency.
After conducting his own research into a number of potential providers, Sheridan met with the Kohler Uninterruptible Power (KUP) team at the Data Centre World event in March 2019. Following the event, KUP was invited to quote for a new UPS to support the 60kVA load and provide five minutes of backup power – more than enough capacity to manage the transition from mains power to the on-site generators that operate in an N+N configuration.
“Following receipt of several responses to our RFP, we decided that KUP was the right choice for us. Its quote stood out as the most competitive, and I had been impressed by the conversations I’d had with members of the team, the organisation’s reputation in the marketplace, its commitment to advanced technology, and the credentials of its individual products,” Eamonn Sheridan continued.
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