Data Centres solution: APC by Schneider Small and Medium Data Centre Solution Overview
Value proposition
Main drivers
- Power and cooling requirements for today's high-density IT equipment cannot be met by legacy data centre cooling
- 45% of the world's data centres are more than 10 years old - Regulatory control & carbon footprint committments are driving a green initiative with focus on efficiency
- Electrical operation costs have risen to the point of having a material impact on profitability and are now under scrutiny
- Safety of data is increasingly important as data centre data moves from business critical to life critical
- Customers are trying to simplify their relationships with vendors - solution and service
- Virtualisation is decreasing the number of physical servers while increasing the criticality of those servers
- Virtualisation can dramatically increase data centre PUE (decrease DCIE), if power and cooling are not considered in the project
- Business competiveness and pent up demand are driving reduced design and build cycle times
Solution in brief
- Schneider Electric will dramatically simplify the process of designing, deploying and operating the world's most predictable, dense and efficient data centre
- APC by Schneider Electric delivers complete solutions with high availability, agility and low total cost of ownership (TCO) through standardisation and integrated components
Value proposition
- Availability: High density capability, Reduced mean time to repair (MTTR), Reduced human error
- Agility: Deployment speed, Ability to scale, Ability to reconfigure
- Total Cost of Ownership: Reduced capital cost, Reduced non-energy operating cost, Reduced energy cost
- Availability, agility, and TCO improvements are made possible by integrating rack, power, security and cooling via the standardised, modular data centre architecture and optimised through integrated management
Differentiation factors
- Project management for the whole project
- Assessment of "project ownership" for small and medium data centres
- Schneider stays with the project after construction
Other data centre design and build companies "turn over the keys"
- Best Management Integration - Schneider Electric is the only DCPI company offering total comprehensive management - building automation, IT floor, power quality
- Integrated DCPI management for small/medium data centres
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