Redefining data centers to ensure sustainable social energy efficiency

With the continuous development of human society, a variety of resource waste has caused great management pressure. The importance of energy efficiency is increasingly recognized in daily life, both at the national level and in individuals. Schneider has an unparalleled advantage in energy efficiency management. Recently, for energy efficiency, data center and other related topics, the reporter interviewed Schneider Electric Global senior vice president, APC Greater China Region President Dr. Huang Honghong.

Dr. Huang admits that, with the impact of the internet wave, intelligent city, everything interconnected and other concepts and topics have been mentioned countless times, and all this is the traditional management of how to use it technology to make it more efficient and intelligent. To realize the intelligence, it is necessary to pay attention to the development of information technology and the construction of infrastructure. And in the rapid development of cloud computing today, through the intelligent can indeed bring more benefits to the community.

Dr. Huang Honghong, Global senior vice president of Schneider Electric and president of APC Greater China

Data center security relates to the country's future

Whether smart city, smart Grid or intelligent traffic, if you want to achieve true "wisdom", is to achieve the intelligent management, will inevitably be on the construction of infrastructure to put forward more stringent requirements. So what is the difference between the current stage of intelligent infrastructure and the past infrastructure construction in the form of performance? Is there a deeper meaning? What is the close relationship with the energy efficiency cloud advocated by Schneider?

In this regard, Huang Honghong said that the current advocacy of intelligent urban construction, no more than two purposes, one is more intelligent, in terms of productivity and availability of a more substantial upgrade. The second aspect is to ensure the sustainable development of society, because the intelligent way to ensure the overall efficiency of the promotion. Data show that by 2030 humans will need twice times as much electricity as they do today, and twice times the total energy requirement by 2050. In addition, to 2025 of 300 million people to achieve urbanization migration, more than 200 urban population of more than 1 million, 8 urban personnel will be more than 10 million, such large-scale urbanization is bound to face enormous energy consumption challenges.

Therefore, it is necessary to be intelligent, and in the process of intelligence will find that the resulting data will become more and more large, which in itself gave birth to the rigid needs of data center construction. At a higher level, the society as a whole needs to be more intelligent, and it must need to be able to collaborate with each other to achieve intelligent management. Digitization allows this management to eventually fall into green, efficient data centers. It can be said that the realization of urban intelligent management is inseparable from data center, the importance of data center is self-evident. Up to a higher level, it can be said that the security of data center is related to the future of intelligent city and even a country.

and energy efficiency, as previously mentioned, is only a relative and absolute concept, and energy efficiency is only a more scientific definition. Energy efficiency is mentioned in many ways today, and the energy efficiency cloud offered by Schneider has a basic thing to do. For example, in terms of macro energy efficiency management, how to combine it and energy technologies to achieve intelligent integration and smart collaboration is one of the areas of energy efficiency cloud consideration. Schneider's energy efficiency cloud is primarily based on the social application of cloud computing.

Redefining ensuring sustainable social energy efficiency

So how do you define data centers in the future, and what is the significance of Schneider's data center construction for the Sustainable development of energy efficiency in the whole society?

Huang Honghong emphasizes that many of the infrastructure facilities outside the IT infrastructure have not been taken seriously in the construction of data centers, most notably in the data center. The answer is power, and only the right amount of power can be achieved while ensuring the availability of the data center. and the server and IT equipment itself for the quality and sustainability of the requirements of the high, to ensure the uninterrupted power supply and quality is a considerable project. In addition, a number of advanced computing capabilities in a data center, the calculation process will inevitably produce a lot of heat, how these calories deal with Schneider also has a sufficient solution.

The third aspect is Schneider's management of energy efficiency in the data center. How to manage the energy efficiency of a large amount of electricity each year, which is the best protection for society, can save a lot of resources. Finally, the data center operations management, Schneider can combine enterprise management software and data center management platform together, but many people see only the surface IT equipment part, but did not discover the data center infrastructure level and the management level of the infrastructure-this is what we usually call DCIM ( Data center infrastructure Management).

These four aspects have considerable relevance to the sustainable development of energy efficiency in the whole society.

Ten years to be imitated never to be surpassed

At present, the government has given more and more attention to energy-saving and emission reduction in data centers, and the Ministry of Information has issued relevant opinions on energy efficiency of the data center, meanwhile, according to different demand conditions, Schneider has always adhered to security, green and rapid deployment in data center construction. Hope to be able to fundamentally adapt to enterprise users and cloud computing platform application requirements.

And Schneider has been a market leader for many years, both globally and in China, Huang Honghong said that the first modular data center was launched ten years ago, that is, the Infineon Integrated System solution, after 10 years of accumulation and constant guarding, the Infineon integrated system has maintained a "decade has been imitated but never surpassed" the leading edge.

When referring to specific reasons, Huang Honghong mainly from several major aspects of the elaboration. It seems to him that the first and foremost is Schneider's ideological leadership in the data center. With the development of the data center, Schneider Electric has been providing the industry with free knowledge and experience to share, free of charge to the community, which provides 128 white papers each year in China download more than 500,000 times, which for the entire data center concept in China's development plays an important role in promoting. Secondly, the complete solution also lays the leading position of Schneider Electric in the market. Schneider integrates the full range of data center solutions and becomes the only vendor in the industry to deliver the most comprehensive solution.

In addition, Schneider has unparalleled advantages in data center services. Schneider Electric provides services that cover the entire lifecycle of the data center, from early design, planning, to comprehensive solution delivery, engineering, and operation maintenance after the data center has been put into operation, and Schneider Electric has a wide range of customer base and application cases.