· Joint effort combines Honeywell operational
technology experience with Vertiv’s critical digital infrastructure solutions
to create more sustainable and efficient data center operations
· First joint offering to combine intelligent
selection of energy resources with centralized visibility of operations and
infrastructure to help reduce energy use
Data
centers help enable the online applications that people depend on for work,
entertainment and communications, but they require significant power to move
information around the world. Today, two industry leaders announced a
collaboration to create more sustainable and efficient data center operations.
Honeywell (NYSE:
HON), a global leader in connected buildings, and Vertiv (NYSE: VRT),
a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions,
will work together to create integrated solutions to optimize data center
sustainability, resiliency and operational performance. These solutions are
expected to be available in 2020.
The
partnership builds on Honeywell’s industry-leading building management systems
(BMS), operational software, and safety and security products along with
Vertiv’s uninterruptible power supply (UPS), power distribution, thermal
management, infrastructure monitoring and modular solutions to enable operators
of hyperscale, large enterprise, co-location and edge data centers to integrate
multiple domains of data within a data center. The companies will leverage
building-operations data to drive optimization of operations, reducing energy
use and costs while improving data center performance and sustainability.
Collaboration Improves Power Management for Uptime, Efficiency and
Sustainability
Data
centers in 2018 consumed approximately 1% of the world’s energy use.[i],[ii] While
the industry has made great strides to reduce and offset energy demands,
including increasing the utilization of renewable energy, more work can be done
toward a more sustainable and carbon-neutral future.
The
companies’ initial focus will be on micro-grid solutions for data centers to
enable more efficient integration of alternative energy sources such as solar
arrays, fuel cells and batteries, and to provide a scalable approach for
operators to quickly enhance functionality and improve total cost of ownership.
The
first offering from the collaboration will be an intelligent power management
solution that features an energy resource management and supervisory control
system in a single, integrated platform. Combining energy storage, analytics,
forecasting and economic optimization, the solution will provide data centers
with intelligent and autonomous selection of energy sources and grid services
to operate a data center load and reduce energy costs while maintaining uptime
requirements. The solution can help data centers meet availability requirements
while optimizing energy costs, meeting corporate sustainability goals and
reducing overall carbon footprint. It will also allow operators to better
manage sustainability targets and account for external risk factors such as
weather and grid reliability.
Resilient Operations Backed by Trusted Brands
The
large amount of power used for thermal management, building systems and
physical security within a data center can increase risk for downtime. The new
scalable and easy-to-implement intelligent power management solution from
Honeywell and Vertiv is designed to enable remote monitoring and maintenance,
reduce costs, eliminate redundancy and improve power usage effectiveness (PUE).
Combined,
the companies sell industry-leading product brands that provide best-in-class
differentiated support to data centers, including Honeywell’s advanced
detection business featuring the VESDA brand of advanced smoke detection
technology; Honeywell Forge enterprise performance management platform
including Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization; Enterprise Buildings Integrator
(EBI) and the Niagara Framework; and the Vertiv™ Liebert® power
and thermal management solutions, Vertiv™ Avocent™ monitoring
and IT management solutions, and Vertiv™ Geist™ power
distribution solutions.
To learn more about Honeywell and Vertiv
data center collaborations, visit : https://hwll.co/vqtw6 or http://b.link/3c94d.
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