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NEWS IN BRIEF
Benning UK launches new modular
UPS System for data centres
Benning UK has recently announced the launch of the Enertronic Modular SE, a new,
modular three-phase UPS system for datacentres. It's specifically designed to meet
the most demanding data centre requirements, with increased efficiency delivered
through its unique user selectable ‘sleep mode’, which intelligently deactivates
modules when the supported load falls below selected levels.
The Enertronic Modular SE – a truly modular, highly flexible three-phase UPS
system. The Enertronic SE combines class leading availability and highest power
quality with no single point of failure and the lowest running costs due to the
system’s high operating efficiency and ‘pay as you grow’ scalability. Another unique
characteristic is that the system is intelligent enough to only use modules required
for the user selected N+n redundancy mode. If the load falls below the selected
limit the system automatically right-sizes its capacity, sending modules which
aren’t needed into a standby mode. This leads to increased savings for data centre
operators in the long-term, while they don’t need to compromise on the system’s
availability.
As each UPS module is a highly efficient double conversion, serial on-line UPS
utilising decentralised parallel architecture, the Enertronic Modular SE system has no
single point of failure. UPS modules can be paralleled together for vertical scalability,
as well as paralleled horizontally in multiple cabinets to achieve up to 1,000kW
power capacity. This flexibility provides customers with the lowest achievable ‘total
cost of ownership’ as the power protection system can be right-sized to the
current size of the load, with additional protection delivered through
various redundancy configurations, as and when required.
The (up to) 40kW modules can be rapidly ‘hot-swapped’, ensuring
very low mean time to repair (MTTR) which, when coupled with
Benning’s industrial grade reliability, enables an unprecedented ‘six
nines’ availability for a UPS built to an industrial grade specification.
If highest operating efficiency is more important to the user than
highest power quality the Enertronic Modular SE has a user selectable
‘Super Efficiency’ mode, which can achieve an operating efficiency of 99%. n
The continued growth of cloud fails to undermine
importance of data centres
It’s estimated that more than $1 trillion USD in IT spending
will be directly or indirectly impacted by the transition to cloud
computing by 2020, according to Gartner. This decision to
migrate to the cloud is likely to be fuelled by growing data
demands. According to Greg McCulloch, CEO of Aegis Data,
this is likely to put a greater reliance on colocation providers to
ensure that the necessary hardware and connectivity is in place
to support this transition.
As IT spend steadily shifts from traditional IT offerings through
to the cloud, a process described by Gartner as the ‘cloud shift’,
the rate at which enterprise level organisations move into the
cloud is expected to increase year-on-year. Evidence to support
this also comes from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), which
now has more than 78% of organisations adopting at least one
cloud technology.
According t o McCulloch, growing data demands combined with
the fallout from the EU referendum are likely to ensure cloud
adoption and migration remains consistent for the foreseeable
future. The role of the colocation industry will be critical to
this: “Data centres and cloud are commonly misunderstood as
competing services at opposite ends of the scale – this is simply
not true at all. Increasingly, the rise of cloud services is affording
colocation facilities like us greater opportunities to enhance our
proposition and our customer network. The recent findings from
Gartner predicting that cloud computing will impact $1 trillion
USD of IT spending decisions only emphasises this further, and
this in turn strengthens our position.”
McCulloch also states that the UK’s decision to leave the
European Union could also have a significant bearing when it
comes to increasing cloud adoption: “Cloud spending is also
likely to feel the force of Brexit and arguably this might push
further adoption. Post-Brexit economic uncertainty is making
companies tighten capital expense (CAPEX) budgets and trim
expensive maintenance agreements.
“The fallout from this is pushing companies to revert to an
operational expenditure (OPEX) model. This is resulting
in more and more businesses looking to do away with the
traditional headaches associated with managing their own IT
infrastructure, and instead outsourcing to the cloud. As we look
to the future, we’ll likely see greater alliances formed across
cloud providers and colocation facilities. Neither should be seen
as separate entities but instead as a cohesive effort." n
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