Data Center of the Future. Is it possible to be Efficient, Reliable and Cost Effective?

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1 Data Center of the Future Is it possible to be Efficient, Reliable and Cost Effective?

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3 Data center challenges: Navigate budget constraints need solutions with a low TCO Avoid downtime need higher availability and serviceability Manage market growth risks need pay-as-you-grow options

4 Energy Costs in a Data Center

5 Market trend Higher Efficiency Efficiency gains Power Cooling Application performance Management

6 Optimizing data center efficiency

7 Macy s department stores: - Committed to sustainability Ranked a top company for generating green electricity by EPA and Solar Energy Industries Association Ohio data center: Approximately 400 servers Supports developmental tasks, disaster recovery and online retail Challenge: Aging UPSs Looking for: Modular design, energy efficiency Solution: Two 550 kva UPSs operating in Energy Saver System (ESS) with Power distribution units (PDUs) using high efficiency transformers

8 Measuring savings An external engineering group documented UPS pre- and post- installation, and observed the dramatic increase in efficiency to 99%+ High-efficiency mode further resulted in: Hourly savings of 86.6 kw and an additional savings of 31.8 kw through mechanical cooling reduction Net savings of 24.4% for substantial year-after-year energy savings A $80,000 rebate awarded from the local utility company by demonstrating an approximate ten (10) times reduction in UPS losses, coupled with eliminating supplemental cooling systems required for rejecting UPS-created heat The expectation to pay off the solution in less than four years because of resulting savings

9 Harris Corp: - Leading international communications and information technology company Top ranked government supplier of communication equipment, looking at green solutions for their data center to reduce costs Two Florida data centers: Palm Bay (PDC), Wickham (WDC) Approximately 14,000 employees, 6000 engineers Data centers support all business objectives Challenge: Aging date center designs, excessive cooling spend Looking for: leading energy efficient solutions to reduce costs and allow higher power solutions to be deployed Solution: CFD analysis of existing data center design Independent Containment System (ICS) Heat Containment System (HCS) Paramount Enclosures Outcome: 30% reduction in cooling costs, reduction in CRAC

10 Victory Technology Center: - Innovative colocation provider - Born as a strategic reuse initiative for a closed hospital, serving the Western New York multi-hospital healthcare system - Designed space to TIA-942 and Uptime Institute Standards with overall Tier-III facility rating, with all critical infrastructure components rated Tier IV 87 cabinets total capacity in Suite II, supporting IaaS clients Challenge: fit into existing building design, maximize IT space Looking for: leading energy efficient cooling solutions to reduce costs while supporting high power IT platforms for healthcare Solution: Paramount Enclosures with rear door heat exchangers on higher density racks, providing cooling redundancy with reduced footprint Enclosures in white to lower lighting costs as 80% of light is reflected, compared to only 5% on black racks Outcome: met redundancy requirements and space limitations

11 Understanding the problem

12 The evolution of convergence

13 What is hyperconvergence?

14 Translating to a real world deployment

15 Enhancing business continuity Management software for facility equipment manufacturers systems, will need seamless integration into the leading hypervisor platforms (VMware, Microsoft) allowing IT managers to fail safe their hyperconverged environment (Simplivity, Nutanix) based on power or environmental anomalies: VM migration VM shutdown Host shutdown Host restart Reducing risk, lowering hardware and employee resources (TCO) through automated protocals setup ahead of time

16 Manual, reactive power monitoring approaches aren t sustainable in today s fast-paced, interconnected environments.

17 What happens when you re not in the data center? Are the same high standards kept in place? Would you know if they weren t?

18 One company learned the hard way The facility turned the A/C off on the weekend Data center staff had no idea UPS event logs revealed temperatures of 90 F+ (35 C) Resulted in near thermal runaway conditions and loss of runtime Had to replace batteries in an 18-month old UPS

19 Infrastructure equipment has many built in sensors Latest generation analytics software can use that data That data now becomes Predictive Diagnostics Benefits are many including: Predicting failures days or weeks before the event Lower chance of human error SaaS service lowers cost of licensing and deployment

20 Market trend Pay as you Grow Modular, or scalable, UPS refers to the ability to upgrade the backup power solution, according to need, quickly and easily. It applies mainly to customers who are unsure of the future requirements of their business and wish to increase UPS capacity in an incremental, pay as you grow fashion.. IHS 2014 Modular systems were first low-power, signal-phase units, but have increasingly offered higher power ratings to serve multiple racks. This approach has been used in certain co-location applications that seek to segment each customer s leased space. Clients often stipulate that their own zones are completely separated from others, down to the UPS. However, as power requirements rise, the prevailing power distribution philosophy may switch to a parallel redundant, or dual bus approach, with completely independent power paths. IHS 2014

21 Traditional centralized critical power Example: 825kVA of UPS capacity UPS is remote from the critical loads (typically in the gray space). Works well for systems that will be fully loaded soon after commissioning (to maximize CAPEX and efficiency levels) Works well for systems that have consistent loads levels or load variations that are tightly managed to limit impact to other critical loads Service/growth is managed at the data center/room level

22 Growing trend - Distributed critical power Example: Scale from 50kW to 800kW of future capacity Critical power is distributed at the end of each row Reduces upfront CAPEX and allows for unforeseen future growth (when needed) Modular/scalable UPS s also reduce upfront CAPEX thru vertical scalability (growing from 50kW->200kW) End of row designs reduce failure points by placing the critical power next to the critical loads

23 Distributed critical power - continued Works well for isolating/managing customer changing load levels Scalability and serviceability at the row level (minimizing risk to other critical loads Works well for both single corded and dual corded applications (use rack ATS/STS)

24 Distributed critical power - hybrid Distributed systems can be mixed with an existing centralized system to support customers requiring 2N and/or higher level of availability (and serviceability) at a lower cost than upgrading the entire data center

25 In summary Data Centers are here to stay Designs will change over time, placing more reliability on the software applications Predictive analytics, using IoT and big data, will make Data centers of the future more reliable than they are today