Data Centres

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Data centres need to control all the physical facilities supporting their 24x7operations. It is increasingly recognised that these facilities need to be incorporated into an integrated data centre management solution.

To date, these solutions have encouraged ‘best-of-breed’ point solutions in areas such as rack & power system management, HVAC, environmental monitoring and climate control, energy management and carbon reduction, physical and site access security, CCTV and digital CCTV recording and fire, life and safety systems.

However, best-of-breed point solutions require proprietary management and control systems – which can mean introducing multiple M2M communication protocols and separate control systems.

CDC meets this challenge by providing, for the first time, an intelligent solution for data centres, powered by Integra™, which adapts to the design, configuration and matrix of all facility equipment options.

CDC’s Intelligent Data Centre Management Solution

Hardware-independent, open system, designed to monitor and control disparate and proprietary sub-systems found in data centre operational control environments.
Distributed processing capability for collecting operational sub-systems information and alarm events.
Rules-based, centralised management system enabling ‘management by exception’, with ability to group separate sub-systems together for optimum performance management.
Can be extended to manage multiple data centre operations.
Response plans and event management guidance for campus operators eg Major Incident Management and low carbon energy plans.
Complete audit trail of all sub-system performance for management reporting, service level monitoring and performance analysis.

Download a detailed brochure on CDC’s Intelligent Data Centre Management Solution

Benefits

Data centre can be designed to include best-of-breed, physical facility control and security systems, with the knowledge they can be monitored and controlled from a single management service.
Can be extended to manage more than one data centre, enabling existing data centres to be incorporated into the management solution.
The ability to group control of disparate sub-systems simplifies operation and reduces manpower requirements and training.
The ability to incorporate response plans within the design is a major contribution to business continuity.
Integrated audit trail can be examined for historical trends and incident forensics
Information from sub-systems can be normalised ready for interrogation by ERP and other management systems for planning, forecasting and corporate governance.

CDC reference sites include:

Crowngate, UK
Eco Data Centre, UK
MWB Connect, UK