Cloud Cubic Jiang Junhai: New data center containers for 20% in the next five years

Tianjin Yun Cubic Technology Co., Ltd. General manager Jiang Junhai

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The Cloud Cube team has been committed to container-type modular data center product development, manufacturing and service for over 10 years, what do you think about the future of container market?

From a global perspective, the container-type data center is a typical construction model of modular data center. At present, at home and abroad, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Ebay, I/O data center, Century interconnection, Airbus, IBM and many other industries users have large-scale use of containers to build their data center case.

Because the container data center has the characteristics of rapid deployment, low operating cost, support for rolling expansion and wide application, it is widely used in the industry, and the market prospect of container data center is broad.

In the next 3-5 years, the domestic market is expected, according to the National Data center construction Year demand 50,000 cabinet (3KVA), container accounted for 20% of the proportion, then need 10,000 cabinet (3KVA), the equivalent of 5,000 container cabinets, about 250 It containers, 125 power containers.

Can you give me a brief introduction to the concept of "container data center"? What is the difference from the previous data center?

The container-type data center is in the factory, the rack, air-conditioning, power distribution cabinets, fire protection, security and monitoring systems, and even ups, batteries, generators and other data center infrastructure, some or all integrated into a standard shipping container, can form a highly integrated, multi-purpose data center module, can be a single box independent operation , it can also build data centers of various sizes through building blocks.

Compared to traditional data centers, container-type data centers have rapid deployment, flexible expansion, low operating costs, energy efficiency and green low-carbon and other advantages, based on the container to build a "modular" data center, has become the mainstream in the global scope, in E-government, Cloud computing, IDC (Internet Data Center), marine science, oil and gas exploration , military operations and other industries have many applications.

At present, Tianjin Cloud cubic container Data center research and development results?

Cloud Cube Company has the industry-leading, experienced data center computer room Design Technology team, based on long-term design operation and maintenance of large-scale data center experience, starting from 2002 to track the study of container data center technology and application Development, 2009 first generation of products successfully developed and the customer into commercial operations.

To date, the company has successfully developed integrated box, it box, power box, cooling water system boxes, such as four series, a variety of sizes (40/20 feet and custom size), a variety of models of container data center products, to meet the diverse needs of customers in different fields.

Cloud cubic Company currently has integrated box, it box, power box, cold water system box four series of container data center products, can simply tell their respective characteristics or advantages? What are their corresponding user groups?

In a 40-or 20-foot standard container, the complete integration of the data center of the various functional systems: Power distribution system (including diesel generators, distribution cabinets, UPS, batteries), precision air-conditioning refrigeration system, security systems, environmental and equipment integrated Monitoring system and fire system.

Single box can operate independently, realize the data center of product, standardization. It breaks the traditional engineering mode of the traditional data center from location construction, equipment purchase to deployment and installation, and shortens the time of data Center project construction and system integration greatly.

The All-in-one box is suitable for applications that require fast, flexible, mobile deployments and small it size. such as site Space Limited, mobile applications, emergency site, field operations.

The It box is to install as many server racks in a container as possible, 40-foot container can be installed 19 52U standard width rack, 20-foot container can be installed 10 52U standard width rack, can provide the maximum support for IT equipment, including the necessary fire, security and monitoring facilities, The necessary power supporting facilities are deployed outside the box.

The most important feature of the IT box is its ability to accommodate more IT equipment, with high power of IT equipment supported on each rack, up to 10~30kw/rack. Its application scenarios and customer types include the construction of large-scale data centers, IDC operators, cloud computing service providers, high-density computing and mass storage.

Power Box is an independent data center power facilities module, integrated in the container installation of power distribution cabinets, UPS and batteries and other data center power facilities, usually in conjunction with the It box, or for the server room to provide additional power support.

The application of the power box and customer types include the need to build a variety of scale data center software/Science Park, IDC operators and cloud computing service providers.

The cold water system box is installed on a standard 40-foot container base, installs 3 Typhoon Cold water Chiller (2 uses 1), and protects the isolation with the protective net cover, makes the cold water system also has the advantage of the mobile transportation, the rapid deployment.

The cold water system box is a product specially developed for high-density container data center, which can provide cold source for it box and power box. It is suitable for IDC operators, Internet and cloud computing service providers who need to build large-scale data centers.

What are the successful application cases of cloud cubic container data center at present?

As of December 2011, the Cloud Cube company in the domestic accumulated 14 container data center products by customers into commercial operations, has been safe, reliable, continuous operation of more than 60000 boxes of hours.

Including Beijing Jiuxianqiao B28 Container Data center Phase I, Phase II project (4 units), Guangdong Foshan Wisdom Technology Park (3), Beijing also Chuang new IDC Room Rapid production project (6 units).

Container Data center in the outdoor installation or transportation process, taking into account the complexity and variability of the external environment, security issues are considered?

For decades, the container has been widely used in the field of land and sea freight in the world, and the safety design of the box has been tested for many years.

When the container is used to construct the data center module, the cloud cubic company combined with the data Center application request, has carried on the many structural reinforcement measures to the container which accords with the high strength freight safety standard, its security has been greatly enhanced. All of the cloud cubic containers are used IC card and fingerprint identification, such as security access control system, the box has more than one camera CCTV video surveillance system, and set up a fire system in line with national standards.

In the deployment process, outdoor deployment, outside the box can be set up safety guardrail, guardrail installation of infrared and video surveillance and other intrusion detection and other security measures. The combined adoption of these measures will ensure that the container data centre is "foolproof" in terms of security.

What about the 2011 sales of the Cloud cubic container? What are the main applications?

2011 Domestic Container Data Center product market in the warm-up period, many customers actively contact the Cloud cube, consulted the container data center products and programs. Cloud cubic Container Data center products in the domestic also obtained more practical application cases, the actual operation of the cloud cubic container volume, has reached 14 units, far ahead of peer manufacturers.

At present, the cloud cubic container data center is mainly used in the IDC (Internet Data Center) Computer room to digest the remaining power, expand the room and the computer room rapid production and other fields. After accumulated more than 60,000 hours of safe, stable and reliable operation of the practice of testing, cloud cubic container data center products are highly affirmed by users.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)