The LexisNexis data center in Miamisburg, Ohio, operates 24 hours a day to supply 2.6 million subscribers with legal, corporate, government and academic information. The 45,000-sq.-ft. facility has hundreds of mainframes, servers, workstations and storage devices. Jerry Zahora, consulting systems engineer at LexisNexis, faced a huge task: The only exception to the center's round-the-clock service was an 8-hour maintenance window on Sunday mornings that needed to be closed because it was affecting international customers. Zahora's plan was to enhance backup power, but also, to find the causes of power glitches. So he looked to an automated power monitoring and analysis system for help.
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