APC Provides Technology for New IBM Service Product that Enables Customers to Install a New Data Center Quickly, Using Modular Building Blocks

WEST KINGSTON, R.I., January 30, 2007 – American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC), a global leader in power, cooling, and management solutions, today announced that it has been selected by IBM as a technology provider for a new global service product offered by IBM’s site and facilities services unit.  APC and IBM have jointly developed the Scalable Modular Data Center, a new solution that helps customers rapidly deploy a pre-engineered 500 or 1,000 square foot data center to support their business.  The new offering enables users to build a data center in nearly any working environment, in a minimal amount of time, using IBM Global Services’ capabilities and APC’s InfraStruXure® data center architecture.

“Organizations of all sizes are currently experiencing significant challenges as a result of energy-related expenses within their data centers,” said Rob Johnson, APC’s president and chief executive officer.  “The strategic relationship between IBM and APC will produce a reliable, scalable modular data center that will provide power, cooling, racks, security and management capabilities that directly address those energy challenges.   From our experience in marketing products to small- and medium-sized businesses, we designed this solution to specifically meet the customer’s need for flexible infrastructure that can install in virtually any environment and still support the cost-effective addition of components as a business grows.   We believe that aligning a worldwide leader in critical data center infrastructure with the global leader in technology services will produce an extremely attractive offering for the small- to medium-sized data center market.”

The new Scalable Modular Data Center service product is available from IBM’s site and facilities services unit.  IBM will utilize its resources for assessments, project management integration, and ongoing solutions-related maintenance contracts.   IBM will offer its customers pre-configured APC InfraStruXure solutions, including perimeter or InRow™ cooling (depending on the density level of the solution) and NetBotz® physical threat monitoring, for data centers in the range of 500 to 1,000 square feet.

The InfraStruXure design, which integrates power, cooling, racks, management, security and environmental and services, allows the selection of standardized components to create a solution through modular and mobile configurations.  By using standardized components, the architecture easily scales to meet the evolving needs of growing businesses.  This award-winning, patent-pending approach provides increased availability, improved adaptability and speed of deployment as well as lower total cost of ownership for all IT environments.  

The Scalable Modular Data Center service product is currently available from IBM in the Americas.

About American Power Conversion

Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) is a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure.   APC’s comprehensive products and services for home and corporate environments improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes.   APC offers a wide variety of products for network-critical physical infrastructure including InfraStruXure®, its revolutionary architecture for on-demand data centers, as well as physical threat management products through the company’s NetBotz® division.   These products and services help companies increase the availability and reliability of their IT systems. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $2 billion for the year ended December 31, 2005, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company.

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