Siemens and Vigilent Target Data Center Energy Efficiency with Thermal Optimization Solution
New reseller partnership to deliver next-gen data center cooling
technology by addressing energy consumption across facility white space
and chilled water plant
Siemens and Vigilent announced a reseller partnership in North America
to jointly provide customers with a comprehensive and unique thermal
optimization solution that addresses data center cooling challenges
across the facility’s white space (i.e., usable space allocated for IT
equipment) and chilled water plant. The joint effort is aimed at helping
data center and IT managers address the cooling challenges caused by
shifting IT loads, uneven server densities, and changes in facility
configuration.
By leveraging Siemens’ Demand Flow solution and Vigilent’s Dynamic
Cooling Management System, users can significantly reduce energy
consumption and improve power usage effectiveness. As a stand-alone
application, Siemens’ Demand Flow solution optimizes chilled water
plants, reducing their energy consumption by up to 50 percent.
Vigilent’s Dynamic Cooling Management System matches cooling to IT load
at every critical spot in the white space, significantly reducing the
energy consumption of cooling units. This decreases demand on chilled
water plants, allowing the Demand Flow solution to further
reduce energy. The joint solution ensures optimal efficiency at part
load operation, leading to maximum energy savings.
“It’s really a 1+1=3 scenario. Increasing chilled water plant efficiency
is one piece of the puzzle and improving cooling performance in the
white space is the other,” explained Douglas Ryan, Head of the North
America Center of Competence, Data Centers, Siemens’ Building
Technologies Division. “Optimizing both aspects leads to even greater
savings than each solution individually. By combining our Demand Flow
solution’s strengths with Vigilent’s technology, we provide end-to-end
thermal optimization that delivers the next generation of data center
cooling technology.”
Traditional cooling management techniques—including simple chiller
controls and individual unit or networked controls provided with
computer room cooling equipment—do not address a data center’s unique
cooling complexities, resulting in increased risk, reduced efficiency
and wasted capacity. In contrast, the combined Siemens and Vigilent
offering uses powerful software to resolve complex problems and optimize
facilities in real time.
“As much as 40% of data center cooling capacity is underutilized because
IT organizations haven’t had all the tools they need to fully understand
and optimize cooling systems,” explained Dave Hudson, Chief Executive
Officer of Vigilent. “Changes in IT load and facility configuration make
cooling extremely challenging to manage. Together with Siemens, we can
meet this challenge while providing an attractive and easy-to-measure
ROI to our customers.”
Vigilent delivers a Dynamic Cooling Management System that uses machine
learning software, a wireless mesh network of sensors, and cooling unit
controls to automatically match white space cooling to IT load in real
time. The system delivers immediate and measurable improvements in
thermal service level agreement attainment, energy use, and cooling
capacity. Vigilent also delivers Prescriptive Analytics that inform
management decision-making around reliability, efficiency, and capacity.
Siemens offers a comprehensive portfolio of services and solutions that
can be tailored to address customers’ data center needs in the areas of
power, cooling, energy management, physical security, fire safety, IT,
and facility management. Backed by the company’s global depth and
expertise, Siemens’ solutions are implemented and supported by local
Siemens teams dedicated to keeping data centers up and running
24/7—helping customers to meet current goals, while positioning them to
grow and address tomorrow’s challenges.
Demand Flow is a trademark of Siemens and/or its affiliates in some
countries. Dynamic Cooling Management is a registered trademark of
Vigilent Corp.
Vigilent
Corp. (Oakland, Calif.) is pioneering the use of IoT,
machine learning, and prescriptive analytics to deliver dynamic cooling
management in mission critical environments. Vigilent reduces operating
costs, unlocks stranded capacity, and increases reliability in hundreds
of data center and telecom facilities worldwide. Our mission is to
increase the profitability of our customers and create a more
sustainable planet.
The
Siemens Building Technologies Division (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) is
the North American market leader for safe and secure, energy-efficient
and environment-friendly buildings and infrastructures. As a technology
partner, service provider, system integrator and product vendor,
Building Technologies has offerings for fire protection, life safety and
security as well as building automation, heating, ventilation and air
conditioning (HVAC), and energy management.
Siemens
Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global
powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and
digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of
energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading
supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as
medical diagnosis. With approximately 348,000 employees in more than 190
countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $86.2 billion in fiscal
2015. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $22.4 billion, including
$5.5 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people
throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
To receive expert insights sign
up for Siemens’ U.S. Executive Pulse leadership blog.
Follow Siemens on Facebook
and Twitter at www.twitter.com/siemensUSA.
View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161114005210/en/
Copyright Business Wire 2016