Data Centres solution: Schneider Large Data Centre Solution Overview
Value proposition
Solution in brief
- Schneider Electric delivers high efficiency and availability by bringing a wide breadth of Data Centre Physical Infrastructure (DCPI) from the rack to row to room to building with applied expertise, thought leadership and relationships.
- Broad expertise
- Intellectual capital in all data centre support systems
- End-to-end, wrap-around portfolio enables holistic design for highest availability and efficiency
- Power, cooling, management software, physical security. Rack systems and services.
Relationships
- Industry-wide relationships enable Schneider to work with all the influence points to provide a "circle of support" around your project
- Pragmatic view of business challenges facing data centre consultants, designers, and operators
- Real world experience in data centres from service entrance to rack - Thought leadership
- White papers - Thought leadership from the Data Centre Science Centre
- Energy University - Energy management awareness and education
- Data Centre University - Courses for those tasked with critical decision-making and infrastructure planning of data centres
- Schneider Technology Centre - 100,000 square foot facility in St. Louis / O'Fallon, Missouri (USA) is a showcase and test bed for Schneider, its customers, and industry partners to learn and teach efficient approaches to power and cooling - One company
- Integrated system approach
- Greatly mitigated issues during commissioning and operation
- Drive for energy efficiency
- One company to call for the design, build, remote monitoring, maintenance and upgrade for the entire data centre solution
Differentiation factors
- Broad Management Integration - Schneider Electric is the only DCPI company offering total comprehensive management - building automation, IT floor, power quality
- A vision for tomorrow for simplified, integrated management
- Remove silos, create energy awareness across entire data centre and facility - Easily extend the life of your existing data centre or quickly add a high density zone with a drop-in pod- Greatly reduced design and build time
- Predictable cooling
- Thermally invisible
- High efficiency - highest with air containment
- Hign density
- Integrated management - Schneider Electric has configured, designed and installed more data centres than any other DCPI company in the world
Architecture
Main characteristics
Rack systems and services bring together:
- Analysis
- Assessment
- Planning and consulting
- Design & engineering support
- Project management, including: coordination of 3rd party vendors,
- Equipment sourcing & scheduling, construction, installation, assembly and start-up, commissioning, integration
- Operations, maintenance and repair
- Remote monitoring: Building automation, IT floor, power quality, security
- Construction/assembly
- Installation
- Start-up
- Commissioning
- Maintenance
- Training