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DEPLOY A DATA CENTER
IN YOUR OFFICE SPACE
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To Reduce Data Center Risk pg.4
Don’t Let Desktop Systems Threaten Your Network Security pg.12
Welcome! Welcome to the inaugural issue of CriticalLink, Emerson Network Power’s quarterly newsletter for data center professionals. As a global leader in the development and application of data center infrastructure, we understand how your business is changing and the impacts those changes are having on your IT environments. CriticalLink is an important new vehicle for keeping you up to date on information about IT infrastructure developments that can help make your data center as dynamic as your business. It’s our pleasure to share content about industry and technology trends affecting your business. We will share how infrastructure best practices can help you speed deployment of new technologies and services, more easily meet stakeholder requirements, ensure application availability and control data center costs. I hope you enjoy this first edition of CriticalLink. I invite you contact us about the articles in this issue, and to share your ideas for future coverage of data center topics. Steve Hassell President, Data Center Solutions, Emerson Network Power P.S. Please join us in celebrating Emerson’s 125 year anniversary. We look forward to continuing to show our customers that by partnering with us they can “Consider It Solved”, and we look forward to tackling future challenges together!
Six Data Center Trends to Watch in 2015
Every New Year is the time for predictions and resolutions. While the accuracy rate of predictions in the technology space are usually only slightly north of the success rate of a New Year’s resolution, the thought processes involved with creating (not to mention debating/ defending) the list can be very useful. So we decided to give it a try. At Emerson Network Power, we’re blessed with a large (and lively) group of passionate data center customers and internal experts from around the world. We asked these folks to reflect on their experiences and give us some predictions/trends for the coming year. We collated the responses, destroyed the names to protect the guilty, and looked for common themes. In the end, six strong themes emerged for 2015:
1. Cloud comes of age Certainly the term “cloud” is nothing new: Most organizations already use some form of software-as-a-service (SaaS), and many have adopted cloud (or at least “cloud-like”) infrastructure components in their environments. Now cloud is poised to expand from that foothold and become an engine of innovation, with cloud providers driving that innovation as they adopt technologies, business models and practices that achieve high reliability and application mobility at the lowest possible cost.
2. Integration extends its reach With rapid changes in many markets being driven by innovation, digitization and mobility, the need for speed that integration and convergence delivers is greater than ever. As a result, integration and convergence have expanded beyond the IT stack to the systems that support that stack. In this new environment, any space becomes a self-maintaining computing space, and entire data center facilities are now being designed and constructed from integrated, prefabricated modules.
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After years of consolidation and centralization, IT organizations are turning their attention to the edge of the network to improve interactions with customers and applications. As organizations grow their use of analytics, location-based services, and personalized content, edge of network facilities will become critical in achieving competitive advantage.
6. Security becomes the new availability
3. Convergence goes macro Technology systems aren’t the only things experiencing a convergence. The telecommunications and IT industries are moving closer together as voice and data services are now routinely consumed on the same device. This convergence will drive more standardization in the technologies used to support voice and data services and break down the silos that have traditionally existed between these two critical functions.
4. Software paves the way for more software Virtualization marked one of the most significant trends in the data center industry in the last twenty years. The impact of this development will continue to drive change for the foreseeable future as virtualization extends beyond computing to networking and storage. An interesting paradox begins to develop where application development and deployment gets much easier and faster, while understanding the underlying physical environment and dependencies becomes harder. One of the key challenges in this virtual revolution is going to be hardware management.
While downtime is still a risk for data center managers, a new threat has emerged in the form of cyber security. Increasingly, data center and facility managers will have to work with their IT security teams to audit the technology and software of infrastructure equipment to ensure security and evaluate the security practices of the contractors and service providers that have access to that equipment. So what does all of this mean? In the past we’ve all experienced technology changes within the data center, but now the very concept of what is a data center is changing as well. Virtualization and edge computing are erasing walls, hybrid clouds and telecom/IT convergence are challenging models, and more complex infrastructure management and security challenges are causing nightmares. We’re probably due for a more holistic, intelligent and integrated approach to data center design and operation, which results in a new generation of facilities that make more effective use of capital, can respond faster to changing requirements, and that enable simpler management and more accurate forecasting. For more information check http://blog.emersonnetworkpower.com
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sprawling infrastructure can add complexity to analyzing power usage effectiveness (PUE) and data center infrastructure efficiency.
Utilizing data center infrastructure management technologies, such as the Trellis™ Platform from Emerson Network Power, can help you fully understand and manage your power consumption and develop consistent policies and practices for managing infrastructure power usage.
1. Build a Comprehensive Inventory Model
Trellis™ Platform automates the process of creating a data center asset inventory. It visually depicts deployed assets, interdependencies, existing capacity and resources in your data center. Having a complete, automated inventory allows you to:
Quickly see the existing capacity of your IT systems and physical infrastructure in real-time, as well as the connections and dependencies between devices in you power chain.
Match available resources to device requirements and calculate the impact of any changes on power usage.
Helps you quickly pinpoint available power and cooling capacity for new IT assets and simplify change management.
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A detailed catalog and graphical visualization of data center floor space shows racks and devices with capacities color coded for quick reference. Sophisticated inventory search capabilities and drag-anddrop asset change functions save you time and ensure consistent and standardized processes.
When you add equipment, the system automatically updates dynamic one-line schematics, energy usage reporting and power quality monitoring and management views. You get a unified view of real-time energy consumption with historical efficiency metrics for PUE and infrastructure efficiency.
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Chain Visible
Operational Visibility
Trellis™ Platform complements its inventory management capabilities with an equally comprehensive view of power chain monitoring and management.
Real-time data on the operating status and resource consumption of data center equipment can help you better manage energy usage and maintain availability.
This insight makes it much easier to track energy costs and see where improvements can be made. You can know exactly where inefficiencies are occurring, calculate utility costs at system and unit levels, and view the impacts of device changes across the power chain to help prevent faults and outages.
The Trellis™ Platform uses this data to provide trend analysis, so you can better determine where to place assets in relation to available capacity.
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DCIM ROI:
A Detailed Look at Real-World Results
You can combine monitoring and analysis with alarm management to set energy limits by data center zone or rack to trigger alarms for the most critical issues. This reduces the amount of time spent responding to non-critical alarms, tracing their origin and fixing problems. Trellis™ Platform provides the real-time device operating status and trending for all facilitycritical devices, including reporting on power, cooling and environmental conditions, complete with a graphical floor plan and customizable alert system.
Benefits Better calculate power consumption to enable the lowest PUE at optimal availability Understand true capacity to improve planning and resource allocation Optimize the use of existing assets to reduce energy costs and comply with green initiatives while delivering the highest level of service
For more on Emerson’s DCIM solution, visit: www.EmersonNetworkPower.com/DCIM
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merson Network Power asked Forrester Consulting to compile a Financial Impact study of Emerson’s Data Center Infrastructure Management solution, Trellis™ Platform. The researchers spoke to a global financial institution customer and what they identified was a clear opportunity to improve availability and increase efficiency. The analysis showed that in a three-year period the institution gained more than $1.6 million in benefit, and recouped its investment in just 13 months. The main contributors to these results were improved system availability for customer-facing systems, greater productivity of remote management, enhanced capacity planning, and reduced energy consumption. More specifically, the bank cut unscheduled downtime by 20 hours annually across its three data centers, reduced power consumption and related energy costs, consolidated 19 servers, and were able to delay construction of a new data center.
For a complete analysis of the results, go to: www.EmersonNetworkPower.com/TEI
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Pasco County, FL
Gets Smart About Infrastructure “We found the SmartRow offering to be a much more affordable system aimed at the small to medium-sized business” Todd Bayley Technical architect for Pasco County’s IT department
The Situation Pasco County, FL experienced increased IT growth through server virtualization and other applications. Facility managers sought to upgrade data center operations by adding a reliable backup system that could provide high availability, accommodate capacity growth and reduce the bottom line. And a crucial requirement – deployment in a working office space, without costly and time consuming room renovations.
Pasco County’s new data center requirements included: Room-neutral design to utilize an existing office space that lacked ITgrade cooling and fire suppression Greater cooling capacity to support the implementation of blade servers Increased power redundancy to provide the availability needed in a backup system High-security features to support PCI compliance for credit card transactions Personnel-friendly application, with internal fire suppression and low noise
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The Solution The Pasco County IT department found that the SmartRow™ infrastructure, part of Emerson’s Smart Solutions family, aligned with the facility’s IT challenges and offered the cost savings Pasco County was seeking. SmartRow can be installed as selfcontained data center in almost any office space. Specific characteristics – such as built-in remote monitoring and the convenience and flexibility of interoperable components – made the SmartRow offering more cost-effective than competitive solutions. Its redundant rack power configuration with dual UPS systems and PDUs, coupled with temperature sensors to regulate cooling, made the SmartRow approach nearly maintenance-free. This enabled
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Pasco County to reduce the amount of time spent on break/fix events and to redeploy IT personnel to higher-level activities.
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Much of the cost savings gained with the SmartRow™ infrastructure came from the ability to implement it without expensive room upgrades, such as adding a raised floor, upgrading the fire suppression system or installing dedicated room cooling. The solution’s self-contained fire suppression system gave Pasco County the peace of mind that its personnel would be protected from an accidental fire suppression system activation while working in the same space as the computer equipment. The simple, rapid deployment of the SmartRow offering allowed Pasco County to easily add the desired backup functionality to its data center.
Results Achieved savings of 60 percent over converting the space to a traditional computer room Saved $80,000 in installation costs, completing the project within four months (bid to deployment) Reduced potential fire suppression system costs by $25,000
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Raised IT productivity as a result of the solution’s remote monitoring system Created a data center where people could work safely and comfortably due to the SmartRow offering’s internal fire suppression System and low noise factor
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Five Things to Know About
Data Center Downtime
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merson Network Power partnered with the Ponemon Institute to update its Study of Data Center Outages. Our findings provided a more comprehensive understanding of the costs of data center downtime, its root causes and, most importantly, what you can do to prevent unplanned outages in your data center. Here are five things you should know. A study of 584 U.S.-based data center professionals found that in the past 24 months, the average data center experienced
1. Downtime is more common than you think. 91% of respondents said their data centers had experienced an
2.04 complete
unplanned outage in the previous 24 months.
2. It’s only getting more expensive. The average cost per minute of downtime has gone up 41%,
data center outages
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from $5,617 in 2010 to $7,908 in 2013. And on average, data centers are losing $690,204 per outage—an increase of $184,702 since 2010.
localized shutdowns
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limited outages
which is a slight decrease since 2010
3. The most frequent causes of unplanned outages are: 55%
UPS battery failure 48%
Accidental EPO/human error
46%
UPS capacity exceeded 34%
Cyber attack
33%
IT equipment failure
32%
Water incursion
30%
Weather related Heat related/CRAC failure
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UPS equipment failure
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$959,000 IT equipment failure
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7 common behaviors and attitudes of high performing organizations
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Consider data center availability their #1 priority—even above minimizing costs
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Dedicate ample resources to recovery in case of an unplanned outage
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Have complete support from senior management on efforts to prevent & manage unplanned outages
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Regularly test generators &switchgear to ensure emergencypower in case of utility outage
UPS System failure
$380,000 Accidental human error
5. Steps for prevention include: Ensure you have proper planning and resources to bring your data center back to life quickly Only 38% of survey respondents indicated that they have ample resources to get their data center back up and running if an unplanned outage occurs.
Leverage best practices to prevent outages Only 36% of respondents believe they utilize all best practices in data center design and redundancy to maximize availability.
Implement DCIM in your data center to reduce downtime Respondents who had implemented
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Regularly test or monitor UPS batteries Implement data center infrastructure management (DCIM)
High-Performing Organizations Experience Fewer and Shorter Outages
DCIM experienced an average outage duration of 43 minutes, versus 107 minutes for those without DCIM.
Invest in new or improved equipment Updating data center infrastructure was indicated by our respondents to be the top way to prevent unplanned outages – and their resulting costs – in the future.
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Source:The 2013 Ponemon Study on Data Center Outages
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5 Top Considerations
For Selecting A UPS
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ew technologies and increasing demands are causing data center managers to look to UPS solutions for efficiency and scalability in addition to availability. The considerations below will help you select the right UPS solution for both current and future needs and help optimize the performance of your data center.
1: UPS Topology UPS internal topology (configuration) determines the relationship between the UPS output power quality and incoming utility power and, ultimately, the effectiveness of the UPS at protecting against certain types of power disturbances. Topology is a primary determinant of system reliability and functionality, two key elements of availability. Historically, there have been three basic types of UPS topology:
Passive Standby: While this topology gets high marks for simplicity, the limitations of the design—such as the lack of power conditioning, brief power interruption during transfers, or generator compatibility make it unsuitable for three-phase applications. Line-interactive: This topology resembles passive standby, but inserts a transformer or inductor in series between the utility power source and the load. Like the passive standby topology, line-interactive can be lower cost but effective, because it supports the entire critical load during power disturbances for the duration of the battery. 10
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On-line DoubleConversion
Line Noise Frequency Variation Switching Transients Harmonic Distortion Under Voltage Over Voltage Power Sag Power Surge Power Outage
2: Availability To ensure your data center UPS solution can protect uptime even during multiple, simultaneous power and environmental events without forcing a switch to bypass, look for: Liebert® NXL™ UPS
On-line Double-Conversion: Online double-conversion topologies have emerged as the preferred topology for the data center, displacing standby and line-interactive UPS systems in network access rooms as availability requirements rise. Properly configured, it is the only topology that protects against the full range of power disturbances experienced by data center power systems.
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Continuous-duty static switch: Ensures maximum fault clearing capability in case of extreme overload or downstream faults No contactors in the bypass path: Contactors are not designed for high withstand requirements Redundant fans: Provides the ability to tolerate more than a single fan failure before going to bypass High withstand rating (100kA or higher): Allows the equipment to stay online during more severe short circuit or circuit overload conditions
for Data Center Professionals September 2014 Ability to start a like-sized Power Distribution Unit (PDU) without transfer to bypass: Keeps the system on protected power when additional distribution is added
3: Efficiency While UPS power consumption has improved significantly since the days of 79 percent efficiencies, some continue to consume more energy than is necessary. Most estimates put the average efficiency at 86.6 percent-well below the 93 percent that is achievable in newer technologies.
4: Scalability and Flexibility Power system flexibility can be provided by a new generation of power systems that are designed for simplified configuration changes and greater scalability, enabling systems to be right-sized during the design phase.
Virtually every component of the data center physical infrastructure is now available in a modular design, including power systems.
Transformer-Free UPS: Offers
These modular systems are typically integrated packages of equipment and controls that are built and pre-tested in a factory environment. The shorter deployment time, combined with the “capacity-ondemand” approach offered by modularity, allows organizations to quickly meet fluctuating demands while managing capital expenditure costs and maintaining higher operating efficiencies.
Capacity-On-Demand: Enables modularity within the UPS module itself, providing additional capacity through either software or hardware modules – without increasing footprint requirements.
5: Design
Intelligent Paralleling: Improves
There are a number of new technologies that expand upon the on-line double-conversion topology to lower CapEx and OpEx costs, while providing greater scalability and minimizing availability compromises, such as:
the efficiency of redundant UPS systems by deactivating UPS modules that are not required to support the load and taking advantage of the inherent efficiency improvement available at higher loads.
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Active Eco-Mode™: Allows doubleconversion UPS systems to achieve the highest possible efficiencies by transferring the UPS to static bypass during normal operation.
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The ability to add capacity-on-demand, either through software or hardware modules, allows power capacity to grow easily with data center needs — without additional footprint.
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e like to think employees are committed to maintaining IT security and abiding by privacy and security regulations. But it takes just one bad apple or someone who inadvertently downloads sensitive material from their desktop onto a thumb drive for organizations to end up with a significant loss of intellectual property, severe reputational damage and substantial fines and penalties.
Control What the User Can Do At the Desktop
Deliver Security with User Transparency
The key to reducing risk at the desktop
While desktop security is growing in
is to carefully manage user access to
importance, it cannot come at the
any computer. Using a secure desktop
expense of making it harder for people
KVM switch is an excellent way to
to get work done. Sophisticated KVM
achieve this level of control.
switches provide multiple ports in
The importance of risk management
target computer can be restricted.
at the network level has long been understood, but risk management at the desktop level has sometimes been an afterthought. With the growing potential for harm, it’s time for risk management to extend right down to each individual’s workstation.
This hardware device can control one of the easiest and most common ways for sensitive data to be stolen or inadvertently leaked—through USB devices. With a KVM switch, the types of USB devices that can be used with a
For example, the switch allows only the desktop’s keyboard, screen and mouse to function on a target computer, prohibiting any other USB device from accessing the target, such as a flash or hard disk drive, camera or printer. This effectively prevents unauthorized
A new briefing document from
downloads via the desktop. In addition,
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the switch can constantly monitor all
technologies specifically designed
the devices attached to it, ignoring any
to manage desktop security. These
access attempts using an unauthorized
technologies can help you substantially
USB device.
reduce risk by: Tightly controlling how users access computers Ensuring IT and system administrators monitor and manage equipment as efficiently, effectively and securely as possible.
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order to support a virtually unlimited array of computers, from PCs running basic applications to high-end graphic applications, for example. With a KVM switch, users need just a single keyboard, monitor and mouse to access multiple computers. An added benefit is that organizations can reduce costs as they no longer need to buy multiple peripherals for each user. In addition, where users need access to a mix of secure and unsecured computer systems, the KVM switch provides a discrete processing path to each computer.
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Extend Desktop Security with Remote, Centralized Management For some organizations, it may be desirable to physically separate computer systems from users and to centralize the management of desktop access and control. There are several good reasons to consider using remote centralized management to control desktop access: Reduce risk by placing computers in a secure location and by allowing multiple administrators in different locations to collaborate.
remotely, look for digital KVM solutions
Reduce costs as users still need
that are platform-agnostic, support a
only one set of peripherals to
comprehensive range of peripherals and
access multiple systems, and they
ensure a pixel-perfect user experience.
can easily share computers, reducing the amount of systems that must be bought.
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Centralized remote management
Emerson Network Power provides
requires a high performance digital
secure remote management of
KVM switch that can deliver an
enterprise network and data center
“at-the-desktop” experience whenever
assets regardless of their location, state
users attach to a remotely located
of health or brand. From data center
computer. This is particularly important
to control room to desktops, you can
where a high-fidelity experience is
trust Emerson’s world class solutions
crucial, such as in control rooms for
to reduce risk, establish security and
manufacturing, utilities, broadcasting
business continuity, protect against
and emergency response, or training/
Intellectual Property theft and decrease
simulation, medical diagnosis
downtime across the enterprise.
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Thermal Management Best Practices and Upgrades
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Recently, some of our Emerson Network Power Thermal Management engineers toured 15 data centers that serve everything from midsized businesses to Fortune 50 technology companies. In each case they were able to identify significant energy saving opportunities – up to 30% savings - by asking just a few general questions. Often, these savings could be realized with the implementation of a thermal management best practice. Below are the most common opportunities they came across. Increase the temperatures in your data center: The old standard was 72°F for return air (the mixture of air returning from computers to the cooling unit) and relative humidity at 50%. Today, you can push return air temperatures as high as 95°F. It is recommended that this be done in small increments to avoid unexpected humidity trouble and to ensure all the IT equipment is functioning properly. This can be done over a few days with little risk to applications and IT equipment. Enlist your facilities manager or vendor partners to assess the safest way to do this. Remember for every 1°F increase in temperature you will save 1.5-2.0 % of your energy costs.
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Raise chilled water temperatures: For data centers using chilled water, 45°F used to be the standard temperature for water in the chiller. Today, it is possible to operate chillers up to 55°F, reducing energy consumption by 20%. Every degree matters—each one degree increase in water temperature reduces chiller energy consumption by two percent. It is important that you work with your facilities manager as raising chilled water set points could reduce cooling capacity in your data center cooling units. Match your cooling requirements to your IT Load: Your thermal management equipment should have variable capacity components (fans and compressors, if applicable) to adjust cooling capacity up and down with your IT load. While constant speed fans are common, they are unable to adjust to a data center’s actual performance. A 10HP fan motor uses 8.1kWh of electricity at 100% speed, but only 5.9kWh at 90%, and 2.8kWh at 70%. Savings are significant (and exponential) when fan speed can be matched to the data center’s actual requirements. In addition, the compressor is the highest consumer of power in a direct expansion (DX) based system. So the more you can turn it off – through economization – or reduce its speed – through a variable capacity compressor – the more energy you will save.
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Use Hot or Cold Aisle Containment: Containment prevents the mixing of hot and cold air, which increases the temperature of the return air (the hot air being expelled from racks and circulated back to the heat removal equipment). Higher return air temperatures allow heat removal units to operate more efficiently. A 10°F increase in return air temperature can create a 38% increase in cooling unit capacity and an increase in efficiency. Upgrade Your Controls: New controls provide the ability to safely implement and coordinate each of the previously mentioned strategies. When new controls and variable capacity component strategies are added to the operational tweaks described previously, power consumption from cooling in a typical enterprise data center with 500kW of IT load, can potentially drop more than 50%, from 380kW to 184kW or $171,690 in annual energy savings assuming $0.1 per kW hour. That potentially can lower the mechanical PUE from 1.76 to 1.37. For more tips to increase efficiency, availability and capacity, visit: EmersonNetworkPower.com/ BestPractices
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Are Your Rack PDUs Keeping You From Optimizing Power Management? Data center investments are sizable, and each component of the power chain— from the building entrance to the rack power distribution—is crucial to enabling equipment availability, efficiency and capacity. To ensure you are optimizing your data center power at the rack PDU level, consider these features: Designed for High Availability Is your rack PDU designed to operate in the high temperatures common at the back of the rack? Is it designed to optimize basic power availability? Is it easily upgraded to minimize downtime? Look for: High temperature rating Hot swappable controller card Bistable / normally closed relays Optimized Energy and Capacity Management Does your rack PDU offer accurate and comprehensive metering? Can you remotely control the rack PDU and connected loads? Is it optimized for efficiency? Look for: Metering of key electrical parameters with +/- 1% accuracy Low power consumption
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DESIGN A THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT ACHIEVES A PUE AS LOW AS 1.05 WITHOUT WATER OR OUTSIDE AIR
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Liebert® DSE™ Thermal Management system is up to 70% more efficient than alternative technologies The Liebert DSE uses pumped refrigerant technology to minimize mechanical cooling. As outdoor temperatures fall, the system automatically turns off compressors, and pumps refrigerant for highly efficient and reliable cooling. There is no need for water or outside air and their required cost and maintenance. In addition, self-optimizing controls, variable load matching and simple, modular installation make the Liebert DSE one of the most efficient and reliable thermal management systems in the world. Emerson Network Power’s Thermal Management solutions help make your data center as dynamic as your business.
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