Modular & Containerized Data Center Solutions
Over the last decade the biggest IT challenge
organizations have contended with is keeping their facilities
for IT in line with their dynamic IT needs. The decentralization
of IT first caused a distributed server sprawl before
virtualization reined IT back. With IT we can plan and implement
changes in a matter of weeks that affect the amount of space,
power & cooling we need to facilitate our IT equipment.
Rapid
IT Deployment Schedules
Who hasn’t been through a fire drill to get
facility infrastructure in place to meet requirements for IT
after the new IT equipment has already shown up. This has been
one of the great divides between IT and Facilities personnel and
Reason #1 to
consider a modular or containerized data center solution as some
of these modular and containerized data center solutions can be
deployed rapidly and in line with a typical IT planning
schedule.
Facility Scalability
Reason #2 to consider modular and containerized data center
solutions is these solutions offer scalability.
Careful with this one though, as the power and cooling
support infrastructure, such as your utility feed and switchgear
and your central cooling plant don’t offer this scalability, but
there is still a tremendous benefit to being able to offer
scalability for the whitespace in your data center strategy.
Another thing to consider is that some of the containerized data
center building blocks are quite large. For instance, for an
enterprise a 40 foot 500kW container that houses 1,000 quad core
processors might be an acceptable building block, but how can we
offer scalability to a small business that would never even grow
into a 500KW 1,000 quad core need? It is this reason that PTS
has developed a variety of modular and containerized data center
solutions from micro containers to modular scalable exterior
builds to highly efficient PODs available in sizes from 10-225
24kW racks. We can offer the right modular scalable data center
building blocks to meet the requirements for any organization.
High
Efficiencies
Reason #3 to consider modular and containerized data center
solutions is these solutions offer higher efficiency.
As most
data centers struggle to keep in the optimal efficiency range of
their designed loads, modular and scalable architecture allow us
to manage the optimal efficiency and add efficient capacity as
needed. Most modular solutions also offer highly efficient close
coupled cooling solutions that eliminate air mixing. The newest
modular solution PTS offers, the
BladeRoom Modular Data Center,
has been designed from the outset to maximize data center
efficiency, using free cooling for over 99% of the year and
delivering a proven PUE as low as 1.13 in temperate climates
across a large load range from 40% to 100% capacity and 1kW to
24kW per rack. The PUE of the BladeRoom System varies
depending on the climate in which the data centre is located,
with PUEs as low as 1.19 for temperate climates like the New
York and 1.31 for hot and humid climates like Dubai.
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Reduced CAPEX Requirements
Reason #4 to consider modular and containerized data
center solutions is these solutions can reduce CAPEX
requirements. Because these solutions are modular and scalable
movable assets they can be financed eliminating the need to come
up with large upfront CAPEX investments to meet your data center
capacity requirements. The other added benefit of the financing
is these assets can be depreciated over a much faster timeframe
than a CAPEX construction investment.
Repeatable Standards
Reason #5 to consider modular and containerized data center
solutions is these solutions can be developed with repeatable
standards. Many organizations have struggled having such a
diverse portfolio of data center real estate that it has been
hard to develop repeatable standards for power, cooling, cabling
and physical security infrastructure. When we develop a
repeatable building block with a modular or containerized data
center solution, we can design and engineer repeatable standards
providing the versatility to reuse these assets in any location.
Yes, we may need to uniquely engineer the core power and cooling
plant infrastructure in our real estate portfolio, but the
scalable data center building blocks can be engineered once
creating an incredible savings and economy of scale.
Structural Security
Reason #6 to consider modular and containerized data center
solutions is these solutions can provide a higher level of
structural security. Many data centers that are constructed
conventionally may have a 1 or 2 hour fire wall that has been
voided by a 20 minute rated door or by a penetration that hasn’t
been properly fire stopped.
More importantly these conventionally constructed data
centers have no Class 125 rating so even if the fire doesn’t
penetrate the data center perimeter the electronic media may be
corrupted. The reality is conventionally built data centers
offer little protection from catastrophic events like fire,
wind, earthquakes, flood, or protect from building threats such
as water, dust, EMI, RFI, theft and vandalism.
FireLock Server
Vaults offer up to 4 hour
Class 125 fire protection as well as
protection from all of the above threats.
PTS has extensive experience in designing
modular and containerized data center solutions to meet unique
design criteria and business requirements. PTS understand what
problems each of the modular solutions on the market solve and
how scalable solutions are best applied with your power &
cooling plant infrastructure or how to design and engineer
supporting infrastructure around a modular or containerized data
center rollout.
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