Case Studies
From high-density cooling to flywheel technologies, these case studies showcase best practices in implementing energy-efficient solutions in the data center.
Langan was moving forward, facing a period of rapid growth and a company-wide initiative to become more environmentally friendly, especially from an IT perspective. The company was in need of an uninterruptable power (UPS) system that would support efforts to reduce data center energy consumption and provide a clear path for expansion as blade servers and virtualization were introduced. “I knew my first priority had to be my power infrastructure because it wasn’t even adequate to meet our current needs. However, I wasn’t even sure if there was one solution that could take us to where we needed to be,” says Michael Breen, Langan IT Manager.
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BAIS had set out to design and build its second co-location facility in Santa Clara, Calif. They needed to support the world-class, energy efficient Tier IV facility that would deliver 99.999 percent availability to global customers with 24/7/365 operations. “For our customers, downtime is intolerable,” says Tom Wye, President and CEO, “So we needed an electrical system that allows us to operate and to do maintenance without causing down time.”
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The Reynolds and Reynolds Company was moving its corporate headquarters to a new facility and needed to consolidate its 11 computing locations into one central, secure data center. To maintain its market-leading position as a developer of innovative technologies, the company needed to provide its associates with ahighly available and reliable infrastructure.
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NetAlliant must have peace of mind that its customers’ servers will be fully protected against any power loss or damage. Unfortunately, the local utility in its hometown of Chattanooga, Tenn., has not kept pace with the revitalization and strong growth the area is experiencing, resulting in an over-stressed power grid and daily power disturbances.
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A four-year project to implement an integrated workflow management platform introduced new technology into the data center that increased heat loads, but also threatened current operations and future technology deployments. “We simply did not have the infrastructure to move forward,” says Kent Hoyos, CIO at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center.
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Emerson leadership decided in 2008 to initiate a massive consolidation project to reduce the number of corporate data centers from 100-plus to just four. The centerpiece of the project was the new global production data center in St. Louis, and the company decided almost immediately to make that facility not only the centerpiece of the consolidation, but a showpiece of data center technologies and design. With that in mind, the corporate IT staff, including then-CIO Steve Hassell, turned to Emerson’s in-house experts in data center solutions – the team at Emerson Network Power.
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