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Infrastructure Management at BNY Mellon

Data Center by Tishman Technologies Tishman Technologies managed the construction of a new two-story, 165,000-square-foot Tier IV

data center and computer operations center. The electrical system consists of dual utility supply

inputs feeding redundant A and B medium voltage utility service and engine control switchboards.

Stand-by power is supplied from eight 2-MW generators and cooling is from a looped glycol system.

The project began when the price of steel was at an all -time high, so the project team explored

alternate methods for constructing the core and shell and after a thorough evaluation

recommended poured-in-place concrete columns instead of steel. The project was partnered by

Sigma-7 Design Group.

“We are prioritizing Object oriented storage over file or disk

oriented data systems and infusing stateless computing in the

data centers.” – Swamy Kocherlakota, Managing Director and

Head of Infrastructure, BNY Mellon

The three shifts in the IT infra of BNY Mellon: a move to software-defined data centers, the rise of

stateless compute that separates machines from individual users and big data that allows

companies to better utilize their business intelligence. Object storage, flash and data protection

are important pieces of these data storage trends.

BNY Mellon has gone tapeless because it no longer met the bank's needs for backup and recovery

times, he said. Every gigabyte of usable data at the bank requires the executives to plan for 2.5 GB

of storage. The company uses continuous data protection as opposed to running backups once in

the night and running full backups on weekends.

Scale-out architectures are important to keep up with today's data growth. BNYM focuses on how

a solution scales and every time if IT team wants to add a data node, they prevent buying a new

node and build onto the module. Scale-out is key for the company’s growing business and related

data and the impact on network bandwidth is key as they want to back it up with little impact on

the network because the cost-per-gig price on the network is a lot higher than cost per gig on the

storage front.

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The primary shifts in BNYM’s data storage

Use of flash in storage systems for responsive needs in the business.

Reducing data center’s energy use

BNY Mellon’s 71,000 square-foot Northern Pennsylvania Processing Center (NPPC), built in 2006

and located north of Pittsburgh, is part of a network of data centers that process over a trillion

dollars in transactions per day. Understandably, given these circumstances, managers of financial

institution’s mission-critical data centers typically tend to be risk-adverse and uptime-focused and

not as concerned with efficiency.

However, BNY Mellon, a leader in sustainability among financial institutions, has long

demonstrated a significant commitment to the environment. For example, in 2011, 49 percent of

the real estate owned and operated by BNY Mellon was ENERGY STAR qualified. BNY Mellon has

reduced their internal copy paper usage by 28 percent since 2008 and offset 75 percent of its

domestic electricity consumption in 2009 through renewable energy investments. For data

centers, BNY Mellon has tracked energy performance at all its data centers since 2006 through its

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) program. PUE is a data center efficiency metric that equals total

power usage of a data center divided by the power used to run the IT infrastructure.

Software defined Data Centers

Object Oriented storage

Scalability with business growth

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Energy Star label to BNY Mellon’s

Northpointe Data Center, located near Pittsburgh. Northpointe, a 71,000-square-foot data center

built in 2006, is one of just three facilities to have earned the recently-implemented Energy Star

for Data Centers. The others are a NetApp data center in North Carolina and a Consonus facility in

Utah.

Team-Wide Focus on Efficiency A team of professionals from BNY Mellon, Jones Lang LaSalle, H.F. Lenz and Mechanical Operations

Company, Inc., worked collectively on the energy efficiency features of the Northpointe data

center, while reducing operating costs and cutting greenhouse gas emissions from electrical usage

at the facility. The team focused on utility improvements and systems to keep the data center’s

power and cooling systems in sync with the workload.

“BNYM has had a significant commitment to environmental

sustainability and operational efficiency and reliability for

quite some time. We look at the return on investment as well

as the opportunity to make lasting changes that will reduce

our overall environmental footprint.” - Dan Gaffney, Director

of Critical Infrastructure Group, BNY Mellon

The EPA’s national energy performance rating system provides a scale from one to 100, which

helps organizations assess how efficiently their buildings use energy relative to other buildings

nationwide. Only buildings that score a rating of 75 or higher on the rating scale as verified by

engineers are eligible.

The new Energy Star for Data Centers rating is a customized version of the EPA’ Energy Star for

Buildings program, with some adaptations that recognize the unique power use of data centers.

The EPA rating for buildings is usually based on “energy intensity” measured in watts per square

foot of space, a measure in which data centers score off the scale compared to most commercial

buildings.

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High Standards for Energy Use

“It’s by design that our ongoing sustainability and energy conservation efforts have resulted in this

new and significant data center Energy Star designation as we grow our business in an

environmentally sustainable way,” said Chip Logan, managing director, BNY Mellon facilities

services and sustainability. BNY Mellon is also a member of The Green Grid, a global consortium

of IT and related companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers

and business computing environments around the world.

The EPA Energy Star for Buildings program maintains a registry of 11,000+ commercial properties

that have met the stringent energy-efficiency specifications designed to promote superior energy

use and performance, and prevent greenhouse gas emissions.

Most of these projects involved significant upgrades/enhancements to the base building systems

in order to satisfy the Bank’s critical system requirements. In many instances this included the

provision of additional standby generators and oil storage capacity, UPS systems and

supplementary cooling systems in order to achieve the Bank’s high standards for bus iness

continuity. These energy saving projects not only led to company’s cost saving, but also represents

BNYM’s responsibility towards ecosystem.

The Result

Became the second data center ever to earn the ENERGY STAR Buildings designation in

2010.

Improved its PUE score from 2.0 in 2008 to 1.52 in 2012.

Saved 24 million kWh or $1.7 million dollars since the PUE program’s inception in 2006.

BNY Mellon’s Enterprise Data Center PUE program has saved over $12 million dollars (160 million

kWh total) since 2006, which has led to cost cutting and saved energy for the energy deprived

ecosystem.