In recent years, the IoT, ever-escalating data requirements, and ongoing cloud adoption have contributed to a shift away from traditional, enterprise data center facilities. Instead, many organizations are adopting new approaches — including hybrid IT, edge computing, distributed IT, and micro data centers — all of which afford numerous benefits but, at the same time, create critical challenges.
As data centers continue to evolve, power remains an integral yet often overlooked part of the progression. With so many alterations to the data center landscape, it’s not surprising that there has also been a change in power protection requirements, driven largely by the complexities these new methods have created.