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

Architecture

Main characteristics

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