American Power Conversion releases architecture program that features energy-efficient cooling systems

Category: Controls, Instrumentation & Automation

Product Type: Controllers & control systems

Manufacturer: American Power Conversion

In an effort to help companies quickly and effectively deploy applications like high density blade servers, American Power Conversion (APC) has unveiled the latest phase of its award-winning InfraStruXure architecture featuring four new application specific systems. The new InfraStruXure systems, which feature several significant enhancements over the previous phases, support high density deployments, first time data center users, network convergence (VoIP), and data center restructuring applications. The systems improve agility with minimized design time and accelerated deployment, and increase availability with designs that APC pre-tested in production environments including high density applications up to 30kW per rack. In addition, the new systems improve total cost of ownership by lowering operating costs with innovative energy-efficient cooling systems.

As business trends drive IT toward increasing productivity and demonstrating IT business value, many IT professionals deploy critical initiatives such as blade servers or server consolidation. These IT initiatives create network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI) problems such as unknown data center capabilities, oversized NCPI, limited time to deploy, or the need for a special or expensive IT environment for technology adoption. APC designed the new InfraStruXure systems to solve real NCPI problems such as hot spots, inadequate cooling, poor power distribution, or poor management ability, that surface as a result of business issues and their corresponding trends in IT. Since APC's agile systems help companies address ever-changing business needs, they are an ideal solution for technology roll-outs, refreshes, or IT environment changes.

“Our new InfraStruXure systems help companies respond quickly to business and IT trends to effectively deploy key applications and develop or restructure data centers and server rooms,” said Dwight Sperry, APC's vice president of Enterprise Systems and Business Networks. “As critical applications such as high density become increasingly complex to deploy, these integrated systems offer a better approach to designing, building and operating successful IT environments.”

A highlight of the new systems is APC's range of new groundbreaking cooling solutions such as the more compact in-row precision air conditioners, “right-sized” rack- and row-based containment systems, and a cooling distribution unit that offers true modular cooling. These solutions provide up to 30kW of cooling capacity per rack and vastly improve cooling predictability and scalability. APC achieves this result by closely coupling the cooling and heat while neutralizing hot air in “right-sized” versions integrated into an architecture that easily expands or contracts.

The pre-tested systems eliminate unique one-time design, and several models ship fully assembled with quick-connect and plugable components to increase agility. The high density designs follow requirements from blade server manufacturers. With management a critical component to successful deployments such as high density, the new systems feature enhanced management tools that provide floor-layout views of kW per rack, easily integrated design logic, as well as newly integrated security-access and environment devices. The vendor-neutral new rack design offers a compact footprint, as well as several toolless installation and cable management features.

The new cooling components for InfraStruXure include the InRow SC and RC cooling units, the Hot-Aisle and Rack Air Containment Systems, Cooling Distribution Unit, Wiring Closet Ventilation Unit and the Air Removal Unit SX. The system's management components include the new version of the InfraStruXure Manager, as well as InfraStruXure-compatible NetBotz security and environmental appliances. The system's rack and accessories include the NetShelter SX Enclosure and the new Rack-Mount Power Distribution units designed specifically for high density. Lastly, the new power components include the redesigned Smart-UPS VT that integrates into the InfraStruXure system.
For more information on APC's InfraStruXure systems by application, visit APC's Web site at www.apc.com or call APC at 800-877-4080.

American Power Conversion releases architecture program that features energy-efficient cooling systems

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