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NEWS IN BRIEF
Panduit opens
London Customer
Briefing Centre
New EkkoSoft Critical 3D data
centre Thermal Visualisation
UK-based data centre thermal risk expert EkkoSense has released EkkoSoft
Critical 3.2 – the latest version of its SaaS-enabled 3D thermal visualisation
and monitoring software offering for managing critical data centre thermal
risks. EkkoSoft Critical helps data centre operators to improve the real-time
management of the power, cooling and space aspects of their data centre
capacity – helping to identify problems that could threaten IT availability,
achieve better visibility of their DC assets and current status, and also
significantly reduce data centre cooling energy consumption.
With powerful new features, including live Airflow Analytics, comprehensive
Estate Dashboard support, and tighter integration with Internet of Things (IoT)
enabled sensors, EkkoSoft Critical 3.2 enables organisations to see exactly where
and how they’re currently under-cooling or over-cooling their data centre estate.
Organisations taking advantage of EkkoSoft Critical’s live 3D immersive views
and rapid 3D room builder capabilities typically achieve an average 23% energy
saving on their data centre cooling costs. n
Panduit EMEA, has opened its new UK
Customer Briefing and Demonstration Centre
in London. The new facility, based in the
heart of the City, provides 200m2 of data
centre, enterprise and industrial automation
demonstration, conference and office space.
This facility doubles the space available in
the previous London site and expands the
company’s customer experience capabilities in
the EMEA market.
The centre contains an operational data
centre to illustrate the company’s and its
partners’ hardware and software capabilities.
Visitors will interact with all aspects of the
data centre including contained environment
cabinets, white space security, heat and cooling
systems, structured cabling and thermal
analysis, control and management systems.
Ralph Lolies, Managing Director at Panduit
EMEA, stated: “The new London Customer
Briefing Centre expands our investment and
capabilities for our UK customers. It provides
a showcase for our world-class products that
will help define Panduit’s level of resources to a
wider audience.
Based in the heart of the City, the Customer
Briefing Centre is located close to London’s
Technology Hub and is within easy reach of
key, road, rail and airports. This centre joins
Panduit’s Customer Briefing Centres in Brussels,
Milan, Paris, Singapore, Shanghai, Mexico City,
Schwalbach, Germany and Chicago. n
Virtual Power Systems and Schneider Electric collaborate
to improve efficiency
Schneider Electric has collaborated to bring power efficiency
improvements and to increase the density of IT systems in the
data centre. Together, both organisations are improving the
return on investment for data centre operators worldwide.
Equipped with Virtual Power Systems’ ICE solution, the
Schneider Galaxy VM UPS delivers a peak load – peak shaving
– capability to any data centre. Traditionally, data centre
operators had to implement a centre’s power infrastructure to
accommodate peak load conditions even though these peaks
might only be required periodically.
This resulted in an inefficient utilisation of the available
energy. With peak shaving, power that's stored in the mostly
unused batteries of the Galaxy VM UPS provide the power to
meet peak load conditions. Using this approach, data centre
operators can design their power infrastructure to meet normal
operating loads, thus helping to achieve a higher equipment
density and capacity in addition to increasing revenues and ROI.
Jeff Samstad, Schneider’s Director of Innovation and New
Businesses commented: “Galaxy VM UPS with ICE from Virtual
Power Systems can be an absolute game-changer for the
medium-sized data centre. Data centre managers can get a
much higher and faster ROI on their Galaxy VM investment, and
delay new infrastructure expenses by creating more headroom
for additional IT load within the existing power infrastructure. It
also increases the effectiveness of the Galaxy VM UPS, since the
batteries will be used regularly” n
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