Modular Data Centres in the UK: Scalable, Smart Infrastructure

EfficiencyIT launches ModularDC

EfficiencyIT has today introduced Modular DC – its dedicated range of fully customisable, prefabricated data centres for on premises, distributed IT, and edge computing environments. Designed, manufactured and precision-engineered in the UK, ModularDC combines best-in-class technologies from Schneider Electric with EfficiencyIT’s data centre deployment and engineering expertise, meeting demanding timescales for customers within government, defence, and other businesses-critical sectors in as little as 12-16 weeks. ModularDC’s range includes dedicated power modules, featuring the customers’ choice of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), backup generators, low voltage (LV) power equipment, and switchgear. It also offers customisable all-in-one modules, containing integrated racks, UPS, cooling, physical security features, environmental monitoring, and data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) software. Further, the range offers highly efficient cooling modules, featuring the latest energy saving cooling equipment, including choices for In-Row cooling, hot and cold-aisle containment, and liquid-cooled solutions for high performance computing (HPC) requirements. Engineered for security and resilience ModularDC provides customers with the ability to specify a highly secure, bespoke and ruggedised data centre solution for mission-critical environments, and includes customisation options for RF-shielding, enhanced physical security, acoustic mitigation, and SCIF-compliance. All ModularDC solutions utilise EfficiencyITs own range of UK manufactured external enclosures, providing a quick to deploy prefabricated data centre for remote locations, where speed to market and agility are vital. “Since 2017, our company has been designing, specifying and installing prefabricated systems for customers’ application-specific data centre requirements,” says Nick Ewing, Managing Director, EfficiencyIT. “By enhancing our offering with dedicated UK manufacturing capabilities, all of which are fully complementary to the solutions offered by our partners at Schneider Electric, we’re ensuring our customers’ demands for bespoke, agile and ultra-secure data centre environments can be met quickly, efficiently, and with the engineering reliability our business has built its reputation upon.” Immersive design experience ModularDC solutions incorporate a tailored design process and are precision-engineered to deliver a highly resilient, scalable, and application-specific data centre environment. EfficiencyIT’s turnkey approach uses virtual reality (VR) to provide the customer with an immersive experience, enabling its customers to see their data centre in the virtual world before the build process begins. The use of VR fast tracks the design and specification process, ensuring customers are confident in the component security criteria, and that the system is built for their critical application requirements. As an Elite Partner to Schneider Electric, ModularDC also incorporates best in class components from Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure for Data Centres and APC physical infrastructure portfolios, including its EcoStruxure IT DCIM software. Further, ModularDC incorporates the latest in energy efficient and sustainable data centre technologies, including Green Premium components, which comply with key environmental regulations such as RoHS and REACH. By adopting a greener and more sustainable approach to data centre deployments, customers can also lower operating costs, reduce their carbon footprint, and minimise their data centres’ environmental impact.

STULZ Modular exhibits new micro data centre

STULZ Modular has announced that its new STULZ Micro Data Centre, a single rack, all-in-one micro data centre solution will be on show on stand D250 at Data Centre World 2023, London Excel, 8-9 March. Dushy Goonawardhane, Managing Director of STULZ Modular says, “Our new data centre in a rack was developed in full collaboration with our customers. Undertaking Voice of Customer meetings in every region around the world, we designed the STULZ Micro DC as an adaptable solution which exactly meets end user needs. At DCW 2023, we look forward to welcoming anyone curious to inspect at first hand, the quality which has made the STULZ name synonymous with enduring reliability and efficiency in data centre and mission critical applications. “The new STULZ Micro DC features a standardised and modular design, with pre-configured options that are tested for performance. Providing the capability to combine power protection and distribution, cooling, monitoring and management together with fire protection and security, STULZ customers are able to deploy IT in any outdoor or indoor location with the same best practices and technology as the world’s largest and most efficient data centres.” STULZ Micro DC provides a scalable approach to IT deployments, extending from a single rack to multi-rack configurations. The solution is designed and built to accommodate the power and cooling requirements for edge IT installations moving data processing closer to the point of use. Typical uses range from HPC, content delivery networks and telecoms network expansions, to industrial automation (Industry 4.0), and Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. The new solution is offered with row-cooled options utilising DX, water and glycol-cooling for installations from 4kW-20kW per rack, and up to 100kW in a single rack using liquid cooling technology from partners including CoolIT to ensure effective heat management in even the densest processor environments. STULZ Micro DC benefits include a standardised, modular approach with pre-configured options for flexibility, durability and scalability, speeding the time from order to deployment within a matter of weeks. The new data centre in a rack offer provides a pre-designed and tested set of standard configurable components including UPS, PDUs, fire suppression, access control, and options for monitoring and management.

Smart Modular introduces DuraFlash SP2800 PCIe NVMe solid state drive

SMART Modular Technologies, a subsidiary of  SMART Global Holdings, has announced the SP2800 family of PCIe NVMe SSD products designed to meet the needs of networking, storage, server, and other high-performance enterprise server applications. The introduction of the SP2800 PCIe NVMe SSD product family under SMART’s DuraFlash product portfolio follows the MDC7000 Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factor (EDSFF) product launched last month. SMART developed this tandem of products to meet the growing demand for Flash storage in the networking and telecommunication infrastructure, data center, edge computing and enterprise server markets. The SP2800 SSD is a highly-secured, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) with TCG OPAL 2.0 and AES 256 encryption standards for access control and data security. Available in M.2 2280, M.2 22110 and U.2 form factors, the 3D NAND based SSD products support the industry standard PCIe Gen3 x4 interface and comply with the NVMe 1.3 protocol standard. SP2800 products come in high endurance product versions with one drive write per day (DWPD) plus SMART’s proprietary SafeDATA power loss data protection standard. Standard endurance versions are also available. “These new SP2800 PCIe NVMe products are well suited to be used as the primary Flash storage device for system boot, data logging and application code storage in high-performance servers,” says SMART Modular Flash product director, Victor Tsai. “SMART Modular has developed a comprehensive PCIe NVMe product portfolio under the DuraFlash brand that meets today’s market demands, and addresses the rapid adoption of PCIe NVMe Flash storage in applications that traditionally utilize SATA and other legacy Flash products.” Technical Highlights User capacity of the SP2800 drive ranges from 240GB to 2TB. Other features of the new SP2800 PCIe NVMe SSD product family include: Form factors: M.2 2280 (22mm x 80mm), M.2 22110 (22mm x 110mm) and 2.5” U.2Available configurations:240GB, 480GB, 960GB, 1920GBPCIe Gen 3x4 and NVMe 1.3 compliantEndurance:0.3 DWPD without SafeDATA1 DWPD with SafeDATAHigh securityAES-256 encryption, crypto erase, secure erase, TCG OPAL 2.0 (standard)SafeDATA power loss data protection in high endurance configurations