Emerson Liebert NX 40-200kVA Case Studies

A Customer Success
from the Experts in
Business-Critical Continuity™

Background

In the midst of rapid growth for the company, the Infinity
Insurance Company data center was at capacity. The company
needed to replace its 20-year-old uninterruptible power supply
(UPS) unit, set a path for future growth, and ensure highly available
access to the information and tools needed by its national network
of independent agencies and agents.

Case Summary

Location: Birmingham, Ala.

Infinity Insurance

Company

Emerson Network Power Products/Services:

TM

•Liebert NX with Softscale

Critical Needs: High availability of data and IT services across

a network of independent agents with a clear roadmap for
supporting future IT growth.

technology

Results

Optimized data center efficiency with a software scalable UPS

that can quickly and easily double in capacity without adding
or modifying hardware.

Solved capacity and scalability challenges with a UPS unit

that provides the flexibility to respond quickly and easily
to unpredictable change in data center equipment.

Established an economical path for growth that maximizes

capital investments and meets data center space constraints.

Infinity Insurance Company is a
provider of personal automobile
insurance with a concentration
on nonstandard auto insurance.

The Situation

With elevators, the issue of capacity is simple. Each
elevator has a prominently-displayed capacity plate
that mandates just how much load the space can
support. This amount does not change. If something
is too large, it simply does not go in the elevator.

Jodey Hogeland, system administrator at Infinity
Insurance Company, found himself wishing it was that
simple with data centers as he stood in the middle of
his crowded 5,500-square-foot facility, surrounded by
servers still in the box because he had no capacity to
support them.

Because of data center consolidation and new
systems implementations, the company’s data center
was at capacity and its 20-year-old UPS unit was
being pushed to the limit and threatening business
continuity. Hogeland knew he had to replace his
old unit; unfortunately, data center space was at a
premium. He needed a simple answer to his growing
power needs and one that would take up little space.

“We are a 24-hour-a-day business. At any given
time, we have about 16,000 active insurance agents
across the country who need to access our servers
to do their job. It is extremely critical that our data
center technologies are available,” Hogeland says.
“To support our continued business growth, I needed
a UPS that would not only protect our 400 servers
and meet our existing power needs, but also
give me a little breathing room when it came
to capacity planning.”

A Customer Success
from the Experts in
Business-Critical Continuity™

“ I needed a UPS that would not only protect our 400

servers and meet our existing power needs, but also
give me a little breathing room when it came to
capacity planning.”

Jodey Hogeland, system administrator,
Infinity Insurance

The Solution

As Hogeland explored his options and evaluated
solutions, he consulted with his electrical contractor.
The contractor promptly brought in I.C.E., Inc.,

a Liebert Network Solutions Partner and IT reseller

based in Birmingham.

“When I spoke with Infinity, they told me they
needed a UPS with a compact footprint that would
help them quickly meet current capacity needs and
easily add capacity and redundancy as their budget
allowed,” says Rick Byrd, principal, I.C.E., Inc. “I knew

right then that the Liebert NX UPS with Softscale

technology was the answer.”