{"id":14295,"date":"2019-01-10T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/01\/10\/news-8047\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:00:26","slug":"news-8047","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/01\/10\/news-8047\/","title":{"rendered":"Accommodate the Growth of Your Business with Edge Micro Data Centers \u2013 New Meet the Experts Video Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Victor Avelar| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are trends and technologies making it more realistic for companies to forego building their own centralized data centers, and instead use the spare space, power, and cooling capacity of their distributed office buildings to house\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/en\/product-range-presentation\/63427-micro-data-centers\/\">micro data centers<\/a> to support their business.\u00a0Using this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/en\/download\/document\/APC_VAVR-9X6SVK_EN\/\">approach of deploying single-rack data centers<\/a> can save up to 42% capex, compared to building a new centralized data center. Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z3CkZlOuzfs\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<h2>The Main Drivers for Micro Data Centers<\/h2>\n<p>There are four main drivers for the adoption of micro data centers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scalability<\/li>\n<li>Speed of deployment<\/li>\n<li>Reliability<\/li>\n<li>Outsourcing to the cloud and colocation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Scalability is a strategy to conserve capital by paying only what you need, when you need it. Think back to the lessons the data center industry learned during the \u201cdot com\u201d bubble. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/en\/product-range-presentation\/63427-micro-data-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Micro data centers<\/a> and their IT kit can more easily be \u201cstepped and repeated\u201d to accommodate growth of the business.<\/p>\n<p>2. Speed of deployment\u00a0is basically how fast you can procure and install a data center. The larger the data center, the more steps, people, and complexity are involved. The smaller the data center, the more simple it becomes to order a single part number that comes with everything you need, including the IT gear.<\/p>\n<p>3. Reliability\u00a0generally increases as standardization increases. Rule of thumb \u2013 the larger a data center (e.g. footprint, kW capacity), the more customized it becomes.<\/p>\n<p>4. Outsourcing to the cloud and colocation\u00a0are leaving companies with less equipment to house in a centralized data center. At the same time, the network equipment at the edge like offices and retail locations require added power and cooling reliability because the operations may be entirely dependent on connectivity to the cloud.<\/p>\n<h2>The IT Enablers Making Micro Data Centers Possible<\/h2>\n<p>Enablers are things that make it possible or easier to accomplish something. In this regard, there are three main IT technologies that enable the use of micro data centers.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/it-management\/2018\/12\/04\/when-implementing-digital-transformation-recognize-that-power-and-it-are-intertwined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyperconverged infrastructure<\/a> (HCI), compaction, and virtualization. These three technologies allow IT admins to deploy compute, storage, and networking in a single 2-3U appliance. Furthermore, the HCI management software simplifies everyday tasks like patching, spinning up new machines, provisioning storage, etc. The software also allows these distributed nodes to operate as a logical single data center. This is what ultimately allows the leap from the concept of breaking up a centralized data center into many smaller micro data centers, and distributing them throughout the many buildings available in a company\u2019s real estate portfolio.<\/p>\n<h2>Probable Cost: Proving the Worth of Micro Data Centers with Capital Expense Analysis<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-53862\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ESX_DCS_Video_StillFrame14_BW-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"man in data center talking on the phone\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ESX_DCS_Video_StillFrame14_BW-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ESX_DCS_Video_StillFrame14_BW-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ESX_DCS_Video_StillFrame14_BW-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Finally, cost. To quantify how much one could save by utilizing the sunk costs in existing buildings, my team developed a capital expense (capex) model that takes into account the physical infrastructure that exists in a building (like generator, core &amp; shell, electrical gear, cooling system, fire suppression, etc). \u00a0When all expenses are added up, you find that deploying micro data centers into existing buildings can save 42%. Barring outstanding expenses to consider like owning vs. leasing of the building, this capex savings is a strong variable to leverage when deciding on your IT architecture transformation.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this research, watch our latest <a href=\"youtu.be\/z3CkZlOuzfs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet the Expert video on the design, deployment, and management of micro data centers<\/a>, or read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/en\/download\/document\/APC_VAVR-9X6SVK_EN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>White Paper 223: Cost Benefit Analysis of Edge Micro Data Center Deployments<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2019\/01\/10\/accommodate-growth-business-edge-micro-data-centers\/\">Accommodate the Growth of Your Business with Edge Micro Data Centers \u2013 New Meet the Experts Video Explains<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2019\/01\/10\/accommodate-growth-business-edge-micro-data-centers\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Victor Avelar| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are trends and technologies making it more realistic for companies to forego building their own centralized data centers, and instead use the spare space, power, and cooling capacity of&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2019\/01\/10\/accommodate-growth-business-edge-micro-data-centers\/\" title=\"ReadAccommodate the Growth of Your Business with Edge Micro Data Centers \u2013 New Meet the Experts Video Explains\">Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2019\/01\/10\/accommodate-growth-business-edge-micro-data-centers\/\">Accommodate the Growth of Your Business with Edge Micro Data Centers \u2013 New Meet the Experts Video Explains<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[12389,12388],"tags":[12391,12616,20642,18020],"class_list":["post-14295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scadaics","category-schneider","tag-data-center","tag-edge","tag-hyperconverged-infrastructure","tag-micro-data-centers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}