Mechanical Technology may 2015

⎪ Heating, cooling, ventilation and air conditioning ⎪

SAP data centre adopts on-demand cooling

Schneider Electric, a world specialist in energy management, has completed the installation of the new data centre for SAP, which includes an intelligent cooling management system to reduce the carbon impact and energy consumption of SAP France’s IT room.

S chneider Electric has worked alongside SAP France to design a new data centre to host its information system and profes- sional applications. Installed on the 14 th floor of its new French headquarters in Levallois-Perret, the new facility houses an 18-rack integrated IT solution. SAP, a leader in business applications, is working steadily towards a green busi- ness model – compatible with interna- tional sustainable economy standards – to meet the expectations of shareholders, customers and employees. The company is therefore committed to improving its economic and environmental perfor- mance in the long-term, for example, by reducing its carbon emissions over the next five years to pre-2000 levels.

Within this context, SAP issued a call for tenders to select a provider that could transform 80 m² of office space into a data centre that would be operational in less than six months. The specifica- tions included a number of constraints: The data centre had to have low energy consumption, be intelligent, conform to

“Schneider Electric offered us a turnkey solution including an innovative cooling system, which was a decisive factor in the selection process. But their ability to design the server room in its entirety was a definite asset. It was very advantageous to have a single contact, as it gave us a global view of the planning,” explains Joseph Cinquanta, IT account manager at SAP France. SAP’s environmental policy and, above all, be ready for the arrival of 400 em- ployees by July 2014. Schneider Electric handled all of the energy infrastructure, cooling, power distribution and protection, the raised floor, urbanisation of the white space, as well as the managemen t

Main pic: Schneider Electric’s EcoAisle solution ensures hot aisle containment, which increases the cooling efficiency. Left: Six new-generation InRow cool- ing units with hot aisle containment and an Air Flow Controller system were installed in the main data centre, with a further 17 standard InRow cooling units in the service areas. Above: For increased availability Active Airflow Controller senses changes in the contained aisle and ‘right sizes’ the airflow require- ments. For visibility, the system operates a simple three colour coding system, green when the system is operating at the set point, blue if the racks are becoming too cold and red if the racks are too hot.

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Mechanical Technology — May 2015