Increase data

center uptime while

decreasing costs
Why not have it all?

Data Center
Building Management Solutions
Keep your data
center and your
customers from
overheating
Balance your ever-increasing
power needs
with the pressure to keep your budget in check
Managing a data center can be challenging. You are often tasked with
balancing the need for electrical power with the pressure to reduce costs.

To avoid overheating, cooling infrastructures are

needed to protect your data center assets and
maintain continuous uptime. In addition, the vast
amounts of real-time, unstructured data generated
can be difficult to interpret. This can lead to human
errors, downtime and the inability to meet your
customers’ Service Level Agreements.

How can you respond to these challenges?

By choosing the right partner that can help you
strike the perfect balance among your competing
demands. Schneider Electric helps data centers
around the world monitor, integrate and manage
their data. We then turn that data into actionable
alarms, displays and reports that facilitate better
decision-making. As a result, you benefit from
reduced operating costs, thanks to reduced
cooling and energy consumption. Plus, you
improve operational uptime and increase
employee productivity.

We conducted a strenuous selection process, looking at all the suppliers.

Schneider Electric provided the greatest degree of flexibility to address our
multi-tenant applications. International expansion goals for Digital Realty Trust
include Schneider Electric as a key partner to guarantee high-performance
capacity and profitability of our facilities. — Ted Martin, VP Operations,
Digital Realty Trust
Deliver data center uptime
more of the time
Data center downtime is catastrophic. It leads to lost transactions,
corrupted server data, network traffic disruptions, unavailable hosted
applications, financial losses, plus unhappy and lost customers.

Consider how much money per minute a large international brokerage firm
would lose if customer trades couldn’t be executed. How much revenue
would Amazon.com lose if their data center was down for several hours?
How much money would be lost in click-through advertising if search engines
like Google™ were unavailable?

To avoid downtime, you need Schneider Electric’s experience and reliable

solutions. Our systems monitor, collect, integrate, and display real-time data
in a single frame, so that data center managers can access and analyze it
quickly, and avoid potential problems. Operators and management are alerted
immediately in the event of a potential or real failure. In so doing, you meet the
expectations of your customers and your executives. Our systems will help
keep your applications running 24/7/365. When your data center is this
reliable, it lowers your total cost of ownership, and allows you to focus on
improved performance and disaster avoidance, instead of disaster recovery.
Make the most of your energy
and still reduce costs
Cooling IT gear typically consumes 50% of a data center’s power use.
Effectively managing the heat load minimizes the risk of downtime and
manages energy costs. How can you do this?

Choose Schneider Electric as your building

management systems partner. We help you answer
your most pressing energy-efficiency questions—
How much power am I using? What IT services
are costing me the most in power consumption?
How can I turn the power down when the IT load
decreases? How much money can I save?

Our electrical power monitoring systems and APC’s

critical power and cooling systems for the IT space
help your company become more energy-efficient,
immediately. One single management system
for a data center’s physical infrastructure delivers
a common view of energy, enabling data center
management to tie energy into the service
management of IT assets. We collect and analyze
key power consumption data, temperature and
humidity in real time, and automatically adjust
cooling and lighting.

In addition, Schneider Electric’s system has secure

web portals, so that you can access reports on
power quality, personnel access, and critical alarm
history more easily and securely—even from
remote locations. With us, you not only improve
your bottom line; you also make information
more accessible. Success story
Schneider Electric is a key solutions provider for the Switch® SUPERNAP
data center in Las Vegas, NV, which opened in Fall, 2008. Schneider’s
innovative solutions allow the SUPERNAP to run 95% efficient at half-load,
saving Switch several million dollars a year in electricity cost, and allowing
them to grow their data center modularly as they acquire more customers.
Schneider Electric’s data center solutions for Switch include building
management, electrical distribution and power monitoring (Square D),
video security (Pelco), and white space solutions (APC).

95% efficiency at
half-load 100% uptime guaranteed
by SUPERNAP
Protect your data, your facility,
and your reputation
We’ll show you how
Schneider Electric’s access control solutions allow you to monitor and authorize who enters
your data center, to prevent security breaches and sabotage that can result in lost data,
damaged equipment, and downtime.

Our biometric, card, and keypad access systems keep unauthorized people
out of your data center building. You can restrict access by assigning role-
based priviledges, setting schedules, and using temporary access codes.

Schneider Electric and Pelco’s state-of-the-art video surveillance and analysis

technology further protect a data center’s most important assets. Under the
watchful eye of Pelco cameras, video analytic software examines a camera’s
field-of-view for patterns of movement that match abnormal real-life events, like
left items, fence-climbing, lurking, and jumping trip lines. Alarms alert security
staff immediately when any of these patterns occur. This allows security to
focus on unusual events, rather than on all events simultaneously.

By integrating your security and life safety systems with your building
management system, you can reduce installation and operating costs
significantly, and control your entire facility via a single set of networked
workstations. With this single browser interface, you can manage diverse
building functions, such as environmental and access controls, power
reliability and quality, video security, and alarms.

Success story
Digital Realty Trust’s data center in Dublin, Ireland is a hardened, state-of-
the-art facility protected by Schneider Electric and Pelco security solutions.
This new energy efficient data center provides mission critical IT infrastructure
to eircom, the country’s leading broadband provider. Motion detection
sensors, access controllers, biometric readers, and fixed cameras provide
fail-safe access control to the data center’s doors and suites. Pelco’s video
security system with IP cameras and recorders keeps a watchful eye with
active surveillance 24/7 on the facility’s exterior and sensitive areas. Security
personnel use the Identify, Observe, and Understand (IOU) methodology to
include constant monitoring, camera use for detection, and video recordings
for investigations.
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Built to work together As the largest third-party

24/7/365 owner of technology-
related real estate,
Digital Realty Trust
Integrated and energy-efficient systems are essential to maintaining acquires, manages, and
data center reliability and security. builds mission critical
communication and
data center facilities for
tenants such as Amazon.
Schneider Electric’s intelligent building measuring and improving data center efficiency com, British Petroleum,
management system combines simplicity, is a key concern. By integrating the entire facility, and Yahoo!®. Digital
Realty Trust chose
scalability, and flexibility. With it, you can your data center personnel can track Power
Schneider Electric to
monitor and integrate all your data points relating Usage Effectiveness and its reciprocal Data meet their unique
to power usage, cooling, white space, backup Center Infrastructure Efficiency—key measures needs. Our precision
temperature and air
power systems, lighting, climate, security, and of operational efficiency—in real time. Schneider
flow control systems
third-party equipment. This enables you to address Electric also makes it possible to tie operational keep servers running
problems before they arise and avoid downtime. alarms into your Computerized Maintenance at maximum efficiency
Management System, so you can schedule and our efficient BMS
integrates easily with
With new government regulations calling for maintenance on aging equipment and prevent
their building and access
reduced power usage and carbon emissions, costly downtime. control systems.

We update and refine the system regularly and Schneider Electric’s

ability to adapt to change is very important. — Ted Martin, VP Operations,
Digital Realty Trust
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