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APC by Schneider Electric receives the Frost & Sullivan UPS Vendor of the Year award for the third year running


APC by Schneider Electric receives the Frost & Sullivan UPS Vendor of the Year award for the third year running

 

Sydney, Australia – 31 October 2011 - APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, received the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Award for UPS Vendor of the Year in the Australian market. APC has received this award for the third consecutive year highlighting its excellence in the Australian UPS market.
 
The Frost and Sullivan award is given to the company that has demonstrated the strongest performance in its respective market over the previous year. The Frost & Sullivan analysts take into account a number of factors in determining each award recipient, including market share, revenue growth rate and product and service innovation.
 
Frost and Sullivan highlights that as a total power solutions provider, APC continues to lead in market share and has demonstrated an innovative approach by providing sophisticated product and service offerings, enabling energy savings in commercial, industrial and data centre sectors, among others.
 
"This is the third consecutive year that APC by Schneider Electric has received the Australian UPS Vendor of the Year Award. It has maintained its market leadership in an increasingly tough and competitive environment. With increasing emphasis on the environmental impact of data centres, the energy efficient power and cooling solutions offered by APC is making a growing contribution to reducing power consumption and carbon emissions. The Frost & Sullivan award recognises the significant contribution that APC has made to the power industry in Australia for its customers. We congratulate APC and wish them all the best for 2012," said Mark Dougan, Managing Director for Frost and Sullivan.
 
“At APC, we know that one of the biggest challenges IT and data centre managers currently face is the increase in energy costs to run their operations. Making the right investments in the data centre is where the biggest cost and power savings can be achieved. These insights will ensure that APC is committed to providing the highest quality solutions to our customers and meeting their toughest power and cooling needs and the recognition from awards such as this is the best motivation for APC to continue to drive innovation in the Australian market ,” said Paul Tyrer, Vice President Pacific for APC by Schneider Electric.
 
“We look to provide a whole green data centre solution, in which UPS and other efficient supporting systems such as cooling, racks, data centre management and services are delivered to meet our customers growing needs.
 
“We thrive on being a trusted advisor in the data centre space and will continue to advocate and implement energy conserving and environmentally friendly power and cooling solutions,” said Tyrer.
 
The award was presented at the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards banquet held on 27th October 2011.