WEST KINGSTON, R.I., Sep 22, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- American
Power Conversion (APC) today announced that Siemens Line of Business
Computer Systems is expanding its five-year relationship with APC in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) by recommending APC's
Redundant Switch as part of the extensive high availability features of
Siemens' Intel based Primergy server series.
"System availability is essential in today's business environment where
average downtime costs run as much as several million dollars per hour
depending on the industry," said Peter Rumsey, vice president of APC's
Enterprise Group. "Power protection helps to keep systems up and
running during disruptions in power which can be quite common. A recent
International Data Corp. (IDC) study found that nearly a third of
server failures are caused by power disturbances."
Enterprise customers with cluster environments can enhance system
availability with the simple switching architecture of the Redundant
Switch, which can be used in multiple configurations including power
quality monitoring from both a primary and redundant APC Smart-UPS(R)
uninterruptible power supply (UPS), each of which can be plugged into
separate AC circuits. APC's Redundant Switch automatically switches the
load to the redundant UPS when it detects a potential disruption to the
load, such as during a severe power event. In addition, APC's
award-winning Smart-UPS integrates with Siemens SNMP ServerView
management platform.
"Our Intel-based Primergy Servers are designed for mission-critical
business solutions and offer outstanding high availability features
from hot- plug-everything through to full-blown clustering options.
APC's new Redundant Switch and worldwide service support will further
increase our customers' business productivity," said Dieter Herzog,
vice president Entry Servers at the Computer Systems Division of
Siemens. "We are pleased to work with APC given its continued
leadership and innovation in providing highly reliable power protection
and management solutions."
Today's announcement further expands the five-year sales and marketing
relationship between the two companies. Siemens currently recommends
select Smart-UPS solutions to protect its Intel-based server customers
in EMEA from power disturbances and to integrate the power supply
functions into its SNMP server management platform.
To learn more about all of APC's award-winning power protection and
management solutions, visit APC's Web site at www.apcc.com or call APC
at 800-877-4080.
Primergy servers are designed for minimized total cost of ownership. In
the development of Primergy servers, Siemens devotes special attention
to high levels of reliability, ease of administration and maintenance,
and scalable performance. To learn more about the Intel-based Primergy
Servers from Siemens, visit Siemens Web site at
www.siemens.com/primergy.
About American Power Conversion Founded in 1981, American Power
Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) is a leading provider of global, end-to-end
power protection products and services, which include surge
suppressors, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), power conditioning
equipment, related software, and professional and consulting services
for Nonstop Networking(tm).
APC's comprehensive solutions, which are designed for both home and
corporate environments, improve the manageability, availability and
performance of sensitive electronic, network, communications and
industrial equipment of all sizes. APC, which is headquartered in West
Kingston, Rhode Island, reported sales of $1.126 billion for the year
ended December 31, 1998.
All trademarks are the property of their owners. Additional information
about APC and its global end-to-end solutions can be found by accessing
the APC World Wide Web site at www.apcc.com or by calling 800-877-4080.
About Siemens Information and Communication Products Group The
Information and Communications business segment is part of Siemens, a
global powerhouse in electrical engineering and electronics with more
than $66 billion in sales. Information and Communications consists of
the three groups Information and Communication Networks (60,000
employees, $13 billion sales), Information and Communication Products
(33,000 employees, $11 billion sales) and Siemens Business Services (17,
000 employees, $4 billion sales). Information and Communication
Products offers the entire product range of IT and communications from
a single source: These products range from mobile and fixed network
phones to ISDN devices, PCs, notebooks, servers and mainframes all the
way to retail and self-service systems. Communication cables and IT
services complement the portfolio.
Within Information and Communication Products, the Computer Systems
Group is responsible for Siemens's computer business. The comprehensive
range of products offered stretches from individual Scenic Mobile
notebooks to best-in- class Scenic PCs for the business sector as well
as Xpert, the PC for the private user segment and Scovery, the flexible
network PC, to Intel-based Celsius high-end workstations.
The innovative Primergy server family, the RM family of scalable Unix
servers and the successful BS2000/OSD mainframes round off the product
portfolio together with an extensive range of storage media.
For more information contact: At APC: Media: Jodi Kennedy, director of
media relations worldwide, 800-788-2208 ext. 2158, jkennedy@apcc.com
Investors: Debbie Grey, APC investor relations manager, 800-788-2208,
ext. 2994, dgrey@apcc.com
At Siemens: Lothar Lechtenberg Siemens Information and Communication
Products Computer Systems Press & Public Relations, 89-636-50076,
lothar.lechtenberg@mch6.siemens.de |
