higher loads, allowing for dynamic power allocation to support varying AI workloads. By collaborating closely with utility companies, data center operators can implement demand response programs to optimize energy sourcing, and leverage renewable energy for more sustainable and resilient power.
4-Software: The combination of EPMS, DCIM, and BMS allows for real-time monitoring, enhanced visibility, and control of critical infrastructure, leading to improved efficiencies, reduced downtime, and lower operational costs. Key benefits of integrating these systems include faster modernization, increased financial gains, streamlined processes, standardized system designs, and enhanced security.
In the AI era, infrastructure is everything. Organizations that fail to evolve their data centers for high-density workloads will face rising costs, slower innovation, and shrinking competitive ground. Success won’ t come to those who simply build bigger, but to those who build smarter.
NTT Global Data Centers Partners with Schneider Electric to Streamline Data Center Software
NTT Global Data Centers division is the world’ s third largest data center provider, operating over 160 data centers in more than 20 countries. The company offers full-stack services, and is one of the largest connected platforms globally.
Due to the company’ s fast growth trajectory, NTT faced multiple challenges stemming from fragmentation among its locations. Processes were handled differently across regions and teams, including sales, construction and operations, and its data center designs weren’ t uniform.
To streamline operations, NTT teamed up with Schneider Electric to provide a standardized software solution for its North American data centers. Schneider Electric’ s solution was two-fold: it provided a Building Management System( BMS) and integrated Energy and Power Monitoring System( EPMS) solution, including controls and monitoring for NTT’ s power and cooling infrastructure, as well as cybersecurity software.
BMS is a centralized platform that monitors, controls, and optimizes a building’ s core infrastructure, including HVAC, lighting, energy, fire safety, and security systems. EPMS provides power management features including real-time monitoring and power quality, as well as energy management such as energy visualization dashboards and reports. This Schneider Electric software gives NTT and its tenants critical, real-time visibility of their missioncritical systems, and helps ensure the sites remain reliable, efficient, and operational.
The cybersecurity solution helps NTT to reduce enterprise-wide digital risk, avoid costs related to downtime, while helping to enforce global security standards that make NTT’ s operational environments more secure and resilient for its tenants. The platform inventories and monitors every piece of connected operational technology, helping detect cybersecurity threats, risks, and vulnerabilities. This was a critical requirement for NTT, especially for its legacy sites – helping to mitigate potential risks and positioning it to serve key clients, including government entities.
This strategic alliance between Schneider Electric and NTT continues to grow as Schneider Electric begins to deliver its standardized BMS / EPMS and cybersecurity solutions beyond NTT’ s North American facilities, deploying them across its data center portfolio globally.
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