Recommended Architectures for Data Centres

Value proposition

• Since designing, installing and maintaining a Data Centre installation is complex and hazardous, it requires mastery of architectures, products and service offers, from the early preliminary design to operations.
  
• Business continuity to secure and increase revenues, since downtime outages are huge.
  
• Operational efficiency : for ROI of the infrastructure
  
• Evolutivity : Site ability to follow high rate evolution on IT technologies

• IEC "End to end power solutions for Data Centres" consist of a consistent library of recommended architectures, for different levels of power sizing and redundancy level.
  
• A recommended architecture is defined by its electrical diagram, the definition of equipment, the maintenance requirements, from utility feeder down to critical loads.
  
• These architectures are fully qualified, with dependability engineering and simulations on: Availability, reliability, investment and operational costs.

• Peace of mind: High availability solutions, consistent, with field experience embedded. Homogeneous across the complete power system, from utility feeder down to critical loads. Compliance with Uptime Institute's TIER classification.
  
• Business continuity / disaster recovery: Critical info delivered to right person at the right time
  
• Qualified solutions: the solutions offer a range of 4 x levels of redundancy (based on TIER recommendation), with availability values from 99,993 to 99,99999996 %, and estimates of Total Cost of Ownership (to help in selecting the best alternative considering customer needs), evolutivity without shutdown.

• These solutions are consistent, with field experience embedded. As the strength is that of the weakest link, they proposed a homogeneous solution across the complete power system .
  
• They fully integrate measure & monitoring for risk management and traceability .
  
• Pre-engineered solutions allow for improved performances, more engineering and studies than one-shot projects .
  

Architecture

Main Energy Efficiency characteristics

• Energy availability: dependability study (statistical values for reliability and availability)
  
  
• Energy savings: "End to end power solutions for Data Centres" integrate energy metering in key equipment, in order to provide facility managers with guidelines for potential savings.
  
  
• Environmental impact: Equipment selection is optimised for major performance and limitation of environmental impact (reduced losses, copper section, plastic quantities, etc.)