High energy costs and a soaring demand for computing power, combined with tight budgets and new technologies - are all challenges that data centre operators and CIOs have to face today.
Thus they are forced to exploit every possible potential for efficiency and streamlining, and systematically reduce staffing, start-up and operating costs. This is the only way that growth and competitiveness can be ensured.
At CeBIT 2011, Rittal presented new products that allow concrete savings and that continue to improve the security, high availability and energy efficiency of IT environments and infrastructures.
They include "Rittal - The System", a superbly co-ordinated system platform. It combines new IT infrastructure components, standardisation options and solutions for automating data centre operation.
Highlights at the stand
Customers' data centre requirements are very different, for example, in relation to availability and security. In response, Rittal presented data centres in four different dimensions at Hanover:
* The classic 'live data centre' room-in-room concept, with separate technical and IT security rooms to house any type and number of server racks and network enclosures. It is equipped with a raised floor, active and passive fire protection, as well as with CRAC and HighDensity cooling.
* The 'high-capacity' container is a modular container concept with separate units for climate and energy, as well as an IT-container for housing the server, storage and network units.
* The 'autonomous outdoor data centre with its own cogeneration of heat and power (CHP) unit' also represents a transportable data centre, though one that is independent of external power supplies. The associated power plant ensures both the energy supply and the cold water feed via an adsorption unit.
Christoph Caselitz, Chief of Customer Operations at Rittal: "At CeBIT, we are showing just how customers can significantly cut time and costs through consistently using standardised products and co-ordinated solutions in an automatable data centre system based on these different data centre concepts."
Subject areas for energy, climate control
In addition to walk-in data centre concepts, Rittal also presented new products in the "IT Cooling starts here!" and "Power Area" sections.
"Power Area" deals with the question of: "What happens if the power fails?" The customer can obtain comprehensive information on such solutions as stand-by diesel generators, fuel cells, automatic system selector switches, and UPS systems, including the monitoring and control of all the components.
In the second subject area, Rittal exhibited a range of innovations for the climate control of IT components, including circulatory air climate control systems or high density cooling concepts for supercomputers.
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