Colocation Data center
Colocation Data center challenges
This expanding wave of new business comes with some new challenges.
You’ll be expected to ensure:
Having a way to quantify this risk before any plan is put into action is extremely important for a successful business. But how? The best answer lies with a powerful modeling tool that combines IT asset data, physical architecture, power, cooling, networking and airflow simulation into one… that tool is our industry-leading 6sigma CFD simulation tool
The simulation tool allows you to model what’s happening inside and outside the cabinet, the cage and the room. Use it to fully understand whether your designs will allow you to meet the service level agreements you’ve signed with your customers.
Managing Risk in Design phase
The CFD gives you the opportunity to “design-out” any issues before your data center is built.
The biggest risks during design are to over engineer and to overspend on CapEx (capital expenditure). By contrast, a poorly designed facility can lead to overspending in OpEx (operational expenditure) due to upgrades to the power/cooling infrastructure.
Managing Risk in Operation phase
In a fast-paced sales environment, up-to-date information is key to selling leasable space as quickly as possible.
The CFD provides a consolidated view of what’s sold and what’s available and offers a visualization of the data center that can make the difference between winning or losing a sale.
At any point we should have all the information about Available Vs Used resources.
Benefits of 6 Sigma CFD simulation tool.
- Quantify the saleable capacity of a room, cage or zone know the impact of PUE capping and how it affects saleable capacity and SLA compliance
- Simulate number of large cages with different densities of IT load & predict the thermal mapping
- Visualize your energy utilization and help to optimize OPEX cost
- Identify over cooling & undercooling racks, help to reduce downtime
- Reduce costs from broken SLAs, increase profit margins
- Decrease sale cycle duration, increase efficiency of sale
- Have the confidence that can be delivered only by a physics-based solution, that existing SLAs will still be met after a new deployment