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White Paper 103 Revision 0 1 CONTAINER DATA CENTERS VERSUS TRADITIONAL DATA CENTERS White Paper 103 by Kıvanc ILAL CTO Canovate Group Revision 0 Over the past few years, data center design has shifted away from the traditional idea of building out large data center campuses of IT-ready floor space to an era where smaller component-based solutions are the trend. The deployments with container based solutions have been less expensive than brick & mortar type data centers and they are more efficient than expected in terms of energy consumption and space utilization. The container data center comes as a complete solution with cooling, network connections, power back-up, monitoring systems, fire suppression units, monitoring software, security, access control and everything else you would expect from a modern data center. Apart from traditional use of container data centers as a replacement of brick&mortar type data centers, they will be also used extensively in the emerging edge computing market. In today’s IT intensive world with heavy data traffic, an edge data center acts as a caching and data- aggregation point between users and larger data centers to ease overwhelming IT loads. Following all these new IT and Telecom trends, Canovate is offering a new generation of containerized data centers with flexible power and cooling designs, quick deployment and scalable capacity for implementation anywhere. The all-in-one design not only provides one stop shopping for customers, but also realizes high system integration and reliability.
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CONTAINER DATA CENTERS VERSUS TRADITIONAL DATA CENTERS
White Paper 103
by Kıvanc ILALCTO Canovate Group
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Over the past few years, data center design has shifted away from the traditional idea of building out large data center campuses of IT-ready floor space to an era where smaller component-based solutions are the trend. The deployments with container based solutions have been less expensive than brick & mortar type data centers and they are more efficient than expected in terms of energy consumption and space utilization.
The container data center comes as a complete solution with cooling, network connections, power back-up, monitoring systems, fire suppression units, monitoring software, security, access control and everything else you would expect from a modern data center.
Apart from traditional use of container data centers as a replacement of brick&mortar type data centers, they will be also used extensively in the emerging edge computing market. In today’s IT intensive world with heavy data traffic, an edge data center acts as a caching and data- aggregation point between users and larger data centers to ease overwhelming IT loads. Following all these new IT and Telecom trends, Canovate is offering a new generation of containerized data centers with flexible power and cooling designs, quick deployment and scalable capacity for implementation anywhere. The all-in-one design not only provides one stop shopping for customers, but also realizes high system integration and reliability.
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Container Data Center Verticals
Telecom: Aggregation point for edge computing and POPS stations
Military: Data centers with critical mission
Events: Big sporting events and expo organizations
Utility & Government: (Police, Electricity, Water companies etc.)
Construction Sector: Temporary data center for big construction sites (ports, airports etc.)
Energy: Oil drilling sites and offshore oil platforms, Electricity and gas utilities
Mining Industry: Remote locations where there is no established infrastructure
Colocation & Hosting Companies
Financial Sector: Disaster Recovery
Other verticals: Automotive, Media & Entertainment, Retail, Manufacturing, Transportation, Research
Advantages of Container Data Centers versus Traditional Data Centers1. Fast DeploymentA traditional brick&mortar data center will take min. up 18 to 24 months to design, build and operate. A container data center will be ready as fully configured on site in max 12-13 weeks. Thanks to fully modularized design concept, Canovate’s containerized data center is flexible and scalable with only a few months for deployment to meet the rapidly growing IT needs. During the manufacturing time period of the container data center, site preparation can progress in parallel, instead of a linear, dependent transition.
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2. Fully Integrated and Reliable
3. Energy Efficient - Low PUE Level
4. Mobility
Container data centers are prefabricated, pre-tested, and fully configured solutions where all these phases are implemented on factory level. All major components of a data center such as UPS, pow-er distribution, cooling, racks ,fire suppression, batteries, access control and monitoring systems are all integrated in the factory and fully tested before shipment. Therefore unexpected risks and failures during the data center construction phase are limited.
Container solutions maximize the data center floor space as much as possible by using exact re-quired cooling capacity and power. Therefore cooling and powering of unused areas and unneces-sary equipment are limited. By applying cold aisle and inrow cooling systems all together maximum energy efficiency and complete hot and cold aisle separation is obtained. Thus a very low PUE level and a true green solution will be achieved.
A container data center can be delivered wherever it is desired by the customer. A container can offer ultimate mobility as an ISO approved solution according to international transportation regula-tions. Mobility is an important feature for those looking for disaster recovery, as it can be deployed easily to the recovery site and can be made operational quickly.
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5. Scalability
6. Disaster Recovery
7. Comprehensive Manageability
8. Better Compatibility
9. Agility
10. High Efficiency
With a repeatable, standardized design, it is easy to match demand and scale infrastructure quick-ly. The only limitations on scale for a container data center are the supporting infrastructure at the data center site and available land. Another characteristic of scalability is the flexibility, it grants by having modules that can be easily replaced when obsolete or if updated technology is needed. This means organizations can forecast technological changes few months in advance and react to these changes very quickly.
One of the main reason to design a modular data center is for resiliency. Quickly built and deployed, the container data center can be built as a means for direct disaster recovery. This is especially important for natural disaster situations like earthquake, flood, fire, landslides etc., where you need a very fast deployable and mobile back-up system. For those organizations that have to keep max-imum amounts of uptime, a container solution is the right solution.
All components of the data center like UPS, cooling systems, security and access control systems are monitored and managed via sophisticated DCIM systems.
You will unlikely face any compatibility issues, since you get all the components from a single vendor. Better compatibility also means better interworking within different connected devices and increased operational efficiency. You can also use a unified monitoring tool like a DCIM software without facing interoperability problems within the data center components.
Being agile with data center platforms means being able to meet the needs of an evolving and ever changing business quickly. Whether that means providing a new service or reducing downtime, con-tainer data centers are directly designed around business and infrastructure agility. Containerized data centers are a quick way to add additional capacity to your existing network and may be more cost effective than expanding a traditional data center.
Container data centers are pre-engineered solutions, so that internal subsystems are tightly inte-grated and interoperable, which results in efficiency gains in power and cooling performance.
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11. Ease of Commissioning
12. Standardization
13. Rightsizing on Time
14. Low Total Cost of Ownership
15. Ease of Maintenance
16. Time to Market
17. Protected against environmental effects
As an engineered, preconfigured and tested standardized solution, the container can be commis-sioned where it is built and require fewer steps to be performed once placed at the data center site. You will not need a team of expert people or work with a system integrator company to commission your data center. FAT (Factory Acceptance Testing) before deployment gives you greater confidence in your data center since you will know it is working before you deploy it.
Container data centers are constructed against a set model of standard components at a differ-ent location instead of the data center site. Standardized infrastructure within the modules, enable standard operating procedures to be used universally. Since the module is prefabricated, the oper-ational procedures are identical and can be packaged together with the modular solution to provide standardized documentation for subsystems within the module.
Container design ultimately enables an optimized delivery approach for matching ever changing IT needs. This ability to right-size infrastructure as IT needs grow enables enterprise alignment with IT and data center strategies. The container can also provide capacity when needed quickly for pro-jects or temporary capacity adjustments. Over or under provisioning of data center resources in a classical datacenter can be extremely pricey and difficult to correct.
Underutilized infrastructure due to overbuilding a data center facility based on over-conservative design assumptions is eliminated by efficient use of container modules deployed as needed.
The usage of standardized components in a container from a single vendor provides easier mainte-nance and enable universal maintenance programs for end users compared to dealing with different vendors in a traditional data center.
Containerization can be used to accelerate release cycles. When your needs are more stabilized, the current infrastructure can be moved to a permanent location or can be upgraded.
Containerized data centers can be weather, seismic and fire proof so that your data center will not be effected from environmental factors like floods, fire, dust and earthquakes.
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18. Utilization of free spaceUsing a containerized data center may allow you to use valuable square footage in your building for different purposes. Container data centers can be deployed outdoors or in unused spaces such as parking garages, gardens; since they are weather proof. They are usually designed with access doors at either end, so multiple containers can be stacked or positioned side by side. You save mon-ey from reduced space utilization, keeping in mind real estate cost is a major cost to businesses today and this means reduced cooling costs. You also save money from the lower installation costs and the lower relocation costs.
