The conference brought together industry experts, end users, business partners and integrators from all over Europe to share their insights on the opportunities and challenges in the new ICT era
The age of big data demands massive data centre builds. The traditional data centre construction mode has become a handicap, and modular data centre design is gaining popularity. In recent years, Huawei has invested heavily in the data centre industry, aiming to provide global customers with simple, reliable, and efficient data centre solutions.
During the two day conference, delegates heard from an impressive line-up of key note speakers, which included one of Frost & Sullivan’s senior analysts, Gautham Gnanajothi, who led an insightful discussion on data centre market trends. The overriding message was that data centres are requiring even higher power density and reliability and a key component in meeting these needs are modular UPS solutions.
Supporting this message, were a number of high profile end users, which highlighted the need for more simple data centre structures that combine simplicity, reliability and efficiency.
Vice President of Huawei Network Energy Product Line, Dr Fang Liangzhou said: “With the rapid development of the ICT industry, data centres have gradually turned from operation support tools into major production systems, which help enterprises earn profits. In recent years, Huawei has been accelerating its customer-oriented product R&D in the data centre industry, helping global customers build various types of high-performance data centres. As a long-term plan for the data centre industry, Huawei will continue to increase its investment on product R&D and will provide customers with data centre solutions that are simpler, more reliable, and more efficient.”
The event also welcomed the Vice President of the Huawei Middle East Data Centre Marketing & Solution Sales Department, Sanjay Kumar Sainani who shared his ideas on how to build a future-oriented data centre by making the most of limited resources and introduced four leading-edge data centre infrastructure products.
UPS5000-S: Efficiency up to 97.5 per cent even at low load ratio
The data centre industry is energy intensive. Energy conservation and emission reduction have always been key concerns. To build more efficient and greener UPS products, Huawei looks at every component, module, and system for optimisation. With each component tuned to its best, the Huawei modular UPS5000-S has the highest efficiency (up to 97.5 per cent even at low load ratio) in the industry. The UPS5000-S is a significant milestone in the way for cutting data centre energy consumption.
To further reduce data centre energy consumption, the Huawei UPS5000-S can reach its optimal efficiency when the load ratio is 40 per cent. Compared with mainstream high-frequency UPS products in the industry, the Huawei UPS considerably cuts the energy cost for customers. Each module of the UPS5000-S has a power density up to 50 kVA/3 U, which is two times higher than mainstream products. This reduces the Huawei UPS footprint by more than 50 per cent.
UPS5000-E: Battery Integrated Solution
For traditional small-to-medium sized data centres, the operation and maintenance are usually complex and costly and power supply and distribution devices take up too much space. Compared with the traditional design of a UPS plus batteries, the newly launched Huawei UPS5000-E battery integrated solution features a redundant modular design, and includes the power modules, bypass modules, control modules, and battery modules, cutting the footprint by more than 50 per cent.
The battery modules are preinstalled and can be quickly deployed onsite, shortening the data centre construction period. Each UPS module has efficiency up to 96.5 per cent. The efficiency is high even at a low load ratio. Batteries are monitored intelligently in real time, making prewarnings before accidents occur. The UPS can run unattended and the maintenance is simple, greatly cutting the personnel cost.
The UPS5000-E battery integrated solution consists of one cabinet with N+1 module configurations. It can provide power up to 75 kVA and power backup time up to five minutes at full load.
In general, the UPS5000-E solution is ideal for small-to-medium sized data centres and features rapid deployment, simple maintenance, and low operation cost compared with traditional power supply and distribution devices.
IDS800&500: Small and micro-module data centres with innovative architecture
Inheriting the design philosophy of the Huawei intelligent micro-module data centre “simple, reliable, and efficient”, the Huawei IDS800 &500 intelligent integrated cabinet solution features an innovative all-in-one cabinet design and provides a one-stop equipment room solution for small-to-medium sized data centres.
The Huawei IDS800 small-sized data centre features a brand new construction mode and truly makes the solution as a product. By using innovative rack-mounted high-density variable frequency air conditioners and integrating power distribution, UPS, monitoring and air conditioners in one cabinet, the IDS800 converges the four core system of a data centre and provides a new construction mode for data centres. It is ideal for financial subsidiaries and branches, educational institutions, hospitals, public security bureaus, small-to-medium sized enterprises and commercial retail stores.
The IDS500 micro data centre features the all-in-one design, and integrates power distribution, UPS, monitoring, and power backup. With all components prefabricated, preinstalled, and commissioned before delivery, the IDS500 can be quickly deployed. In addition, the Huawei network management system can be configured to centrally monitor and manage multiple sites.
IDS1000-A: Prefabricated All-in-One data centre solution
During the conference, Huawei released the new generation of prefabricated All-In-One IDS1000-A container data centre. In addition to the multifunctional characteristics of its predecessor, which features a short deployment period, low PUE and quakeproof performance up to Mercalli intensity scale IX, the new IDS1000-A All-in-One data centre solution has a whole lot of other values.
With a built-in efficient Huawei site power system, the new container data centre can be used as an outdoor communications equipment room. The brand new power supply structure meets the requirements of UPTIME TIER3. Optional IP65 protection is available for harsh environments. The fireproof performance is up to UL120 minutes. The risk of fire is minimised thanks to the Huawei iBattery intelligent battery management technology. Variable frequency air conditioners and the Freecooling direct ventilation technology are used, significantly lowering the PUE. Onsite installation can be finished within one week.
The new generation of IDS1000-A All-in-One container data centre solution has unique advantages in scenarios such as disaster relief, military affairs, oil exploitation, survey and enterprise data services. It can also be directly deployed outdoors as network infrastructure to helps enterprise telecom operators and Internet operators rapidly build data centres.
Huawei is dedicated to providing customers with the best data centre solutions. Recently, the famous consulting company ICTresearch released the 2015–2016 Annual Market Report for China Modular Data Centre Products, which provides an in-depth analysis on the competition and development trends of the industry market. According to the report, Huawei continues to be the leader in the China region in 2015, with a market share ranked No. 1.
Speaking about Huawei’s global partners, the Director of Huawei German Channel Department, Joerg Karpinski outlined the importance of its partnerships and explained Huawei’s channel partnership policies. Mr Karpinski said: “Huawei will stick to its strategies to be integrated, building an open and cooperative product chain ecosystem and creating more values for partners.” He concluded by thanking Huawei’s partners for their support: “We are looking forward to win-win cooperation with more partners in the future.”
Power Control(PCL) picked up one of the Best Partner Award from Huawei. The award, which was presented at Huawei’s prestigious Network and Energy Conference in Frankfurt, recognises the commitment and diligence demonstrated by PCL.
Other recipients of the award were Wohrle and Elinex. The Best Practice awards went to Noris Network and BIT.
