Flexibility: The Chameleon DC

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While energy efficiency has been the ‘hottest’ challenge in data center developments in the past years, a new challenge has already caught up: “extreme” flexibility. With IT developments moving ever faster and the effects of virtualization and resilience of software affecting the data center, everything is changing. However, few, if any at all, know how this will eventually transform the data center landscape.

Most uncertainties are related to:

• White space: from containers, to DC power supply, water-on-the-chip-cooling or non-UPS power supply;
• Power densities: ranging from a conservative average of 10 kVA per rack to hotspots of 80 kVA per rack (and rising);
• Room conditions: ranging from standard ASHRAE conditions, to desert conditions;
• TIER levels.

Given the very short market forecast or IT horizon common to the data center market, these uncertainties result in a demand to be able to ‘change on the spot’. To meet this demand, Deerns has developed the Chameleon DC, that changes on the spot to meet your needs. It utilizes the GC-DC© technology, leading to some of the worlds best PUE’s.

Read the Whitepaper submitted for Uptime Institute Symposium 2009.

Read the Whitepaper submitted for Uptime Institute Symposium 2010 or view our Technology Innovation Presentation 2010.