Facilities
Turning spare power into
high density capability
APC by Schneider Electric’s InfraStruXure® Hot Aisle
Containment System has been introduced into one of Fujitsu
Service’s flagship data centres to help utilise power capacity
more efficiently and enable a high density zone for blade servers.
Chris Flanagan is Data Centre In his day to day role, Chris Flanagan An emerging challenge for Fujitsu
Development Manager, at Fujitsu is required to investigate new Services is managing the capacity of
Services, one of Europe’s largest initiatives and improvements to their facilities. The company
information technology services datacentre physical infrastructure, constantly tracks available capacity
organisations. In the EMEA region assessing new technologies and and has noticed a change in the
alone, Fujitsu Services operate in methodologies and recommending landscape with the introduction of
excess of 28,000 square metres of their use where they represent higher density and blade servers by
datacentre space across 17 facilities, opportunity for Fujitsu in terms of both their customers and, as a
accommodating around 80,000 customer delivery and CSR. consequence, an increasing demand
servers. Their datacentres are the While the IT equipment itself remains for cooling.
base layer for the majority of their outside of his remit, Chris is all too
managed services for which the aware of the impact which the latest It was the dual needs of capacity and
company can boast a broad range of generations of servers are having a high density environment at another
influential customers from Central and upon the technical environments he Fujitsu datacentre close to London
Local Government to retail operators oversees. which spurred the company to
and financial service organisations. investigate APC’s InfraStruXure®
“In addition to my responsibilities with solution for on-demand datacentres
the physical layer and keeping the and in particular its Hot Aisle
datacentre operations team abreast of Containment System (HACS).
what’s new, I’m also empowered to The datacentre in question has 5308
investigate how Fujitsu can improve m2 of technical space divided into
efficiency, reduce costs and the four data halls.
carbon footprint. Our recently opened
65,000 square foot datacentre is the The facility has 4.5MW of power
first in Europe to be certified by the available, although only 3500kW were
Uptime Institute as conforming to the being utilised. Prior to the installation
Tier III standard and is designed with of the high density aisles, average
the latest environmental features rack power density across the facility
which, together with an IT was 750W/ m2. It was therefore
optimisation programme will save thought that the addition of some
enough electricity to power up to provision for high density equipment
6,000 homes every year, equivalent to was viable and Chris Flanagan started
saving 10,000 tonnes of carbon the process of deciding on the
dioxide each year.” specifics of the installation.
September 2008
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