Is your data center ready for Mother Nature?
Supporting the 5
Common Challenges
of the Data Center
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Edition 2
Using Intelligent
Controls
To Optimize Data Center
Thermal Management
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Is Your Data Center Ready
for Mother Nature?
Top Tips for Availability,
Efficiency and Safety
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Preparing for
tomorrow’s
challenges
In this issue of
CriticalLink, the focus
is on the future – 2015
through to 2025. What
challenges lie ahead?
At times, it seems
that the needs of our
customers change as quickly as the weather
does. How can data centers plan for the
future when there is so much uncertainty?
Staying on top of industry trends, new
technologies and latest thinking is the best
way to prepare for a dynamic infrastructure
that enables your critical spaces to be more
secure, resilient, flexible and efficient.
Here’s how you can get started with some
of the key topics in this issue:
Supporting the
5 Common Challenges
of the Data Center
t Emerson, our customers come first. A critical component
of making that possible is by actively listening to data
center professionals about what they need to be successful
in their roles. We speak to our customers in many different ways —
surveys, focus groups, advisory boards, the Data Center Users Group
(DCUG) and most recently through our Data Center 2025 initiative.
One of the key themes we’ve heard is the challenge of the data
center keeping up with demands of the business it supports.
Addressing unexpected or changing business IT needs on time
and on budget is how our profession measures success. Our vision
is a “data center as dynamic as your business”. We’re developing
integrated technologies and design approaches to address key
challenges faced by today’s dynamic business environment. The
challenges facing the business and data center can be categorized
into a few main categories:
Speed
•Top tips to ensure your data center is
ready to face varying weather conditions
•Research on today’s IT challenges and
how they will affect the data center of
the future
•New industry standards that are
impacting the performance of IT
infrastructure
•Innovative equipment that enables
improved intelligence and management
for applications of all sizes
If you have questions about any of the ideas
or technologies presented here, please
contact your Local Emerson Network Power
rep or visit EmersonNetworkPower.eu.
Where once enterprises built out capacity to meet future
requirements, the drain on capital and operating costs
inherent in that approach,
combined with the pace of
change, have rendered it
impractical. Today, enterprises
need to deploy new applications
quickly and not just through
the cloud. Cloud services have
a place in the enterprise but
their value has to extend beyond
speed of deployment. Ideally,
enterprise data centers can
deploy applications on-premise
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of the Data Center
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Wishing you a safe and fruitful summer,
Using Intelligent Controls to Optimize
Data Center Thermal Management
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Lal Karsanbhai
President, Emerson Network Power
in Europe
University of Cambridge Implements Dynamic Emerson
Data Center Solutions to Drive Efficiency
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Paragon Internet Group
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fast enough to make decisions about when to use cloud
services independent of speed. In other words, using cloud
services where it makes the most strategic sense and not
just because it enables faster deployment.
Availability
This has been priority No. 1 for most data
center professionals for most of their careers.
However, managing availability is becoming more complex
in the current ecosystem. In some cases, it may not be
about building a five-nines facility; it is about matching
availability requirements to the needs of the application
so that an appropriate level of availability can be provided
at the lowest cost possible based on the criticality of the
application. In addition, there is now more opportunity
to transfer loads across the data center ecosystem in the
event of failure, which is creating more flexibility in how
availability is managed.
“As a CIO, I operated on the premise that you
get yelled at for efficiency issues and fired for
availability issues.”
Steve Hassell, Emerson Network Power
Productivity
Of the 800-plus professionals who participated
in the Data Center 2025 survey, 44 percent
don’t expect to be working in the field in ten years. As an
industry, we need to work aggressively to train the next
generation of data center managers, while also ensuring
that the personnel working in data centers are using
appropriate tools and being as productive as they can be.
This is an aspect of efficiency that sometimes doesn’t get
enough attention. We aren’t going to be able to get the
most from our resources, or attract the best talent to our
industry, if we are managing assets in spreadsheets and
monitoring equipment by walking the floor.
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Redfish to Make a Big Splash in Data Center
Systems Management
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Raise Your Standards for Desktop Security
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High Efficiency Modes of Operation
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New Offerings
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Are You Meeting Your Remote IT Goals?
Score a Better Solution
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Cost
While reducing costs takes a backseat to
supporting agility, nobody has unlimited budgets
and IT can’t afford to be seen as inefficient or bloated.
It limits the ability to acquire necessary resources and
prevents IT from being perceived as a strategic partner
with other areas of the business. Externally the perception
of an inefficient energy-wasting operation can bring
negative publicity and, from an industry perspective, invite
regulation.
Risk
Events in recent years have highlighted
vulnerabilities in data center systems, that when
exploited, create huge business losses. IT security has been
siloed in many organizations, but forward-thinking, risksensitive businesses now realize data center management
must be security savvy and that data center systems must
be part of a comprehensive security strategy.
Steve Hassell, Emerson Network Power president and
former CIO at Emerson and two other companies, says:
“What is interesting to me as a former CIO is that all five of
these issues ladder up to one larger concern. Vendors love
to ask CIOs “what keeps you up at night?” My answer to
that question was always: it’s not the tactical management
issues I spend my day on, it is the fear that IT, when we are
needed most, will be an inhibitor rather than an enabler
of what the business needs to accomplish. All five of these
issues, if not managed effectively, can prevent IT from
enabling necessary business change.”
Read more of our latest thinking on our blog:
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CriticalLink for Data Center Professionals is a quarterly
publication from Emerson Network Power with insights and
information to help you make your data center as dynamic as
your business.
We invite your feedback on the publication and your ideas for
future articles. Please contact us via email at:
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Using Intelligent Controls to Optimize
Data Center Thermal Management
Businesses are adopting a number of
new thermal management strategies
to remove heat from the data center,
with a goal of also achieving capital
and operational savings.
One of the strategies proving most effective is enabling
greater availability, efficiency and decision making by
optimizing existing thermal management systems with
intelligence provided by sophisticated controls.
“Sophisticated” doesn’t have to mean expensive, or require
a significant new purchase. A large amount of functionality
is built into the current generation of thermal management
controls that are integrated into many of the thermal
management systems found in data centers today. In many
cases, they simply need to be “turned on” and utilized to
realize benefits. And, for those systems that do have older
generation controls, retrofit options are often available.
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Look for intelligent controls that can offer these efficiency
and management features to a data center:
Create a unified cooling environment that spans
unit and system level, and even integrates at the data
center infrastructure management level for capacity
and utilization monitoring. This type of system is most
ideal for allowing managers to protect, harmonize and
optimize thermal systems more intuitively.
Enable machine-to-machine communication between
multiple units to prevent them from working at crosspurposes and allow the system as a whole to adapt to
changes in facility-level demand as efficiently as possible.
Exploiting the redundancy in a N+1 configuration four
units with variable capacity fans in teamwork mode
(equally sharing the IT load) can operate 44 percent
more efficiently than four fixed speed units operating
autonomously (three working at 100% and one off). At
extremely low loads, the controls can place some units in
standby mode for further savings.
There are a number of fundamental steps data center
managers can take to ensure their thermal management
systems are intelligent and self-optimizing, enabling them
to achieve the highest of levels of efficiency and availability.
One of the easiest steps data center managers can take is
to implement intelligent controls – for the simple reason
that, in many cases, it is as easy as “turning on” the controls
found within many of today’s thermal management units.
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University of Cambridge Implements Dynamic
Emerson Data Center Solutions to Drive Efficiency,
Lower Costs and Reduce Carbon Footprint
Emerson will enable
Cambridge to control
multiple data center
environments remotely
and save energy costs by
as much as 40 percent.
Due to the fragmented nature of
its campus system, the University
uses more than 200 independently
managed server rooms across 120
departments to cope with staff and
student data − resulting in inefficient
energy usage. With large quantities
of data, including sensitive research
material, internal records and financial
information, advanced data storage
capabilities are critical.
“By upgrading our data center
infrastructure, we expect to reduce
our carbon footprint by 30 percent and
our IT energy costs by as much as 40
percent,” said Ian Tasker, data center
manager, University of Cambridge.
“This equates to a considerable
reduction in our Power Usage
Effectiveness (PUE), which currently
spans from 1.7 to 3, lowering it to 1.2
and below.”
The University’s research teams
also have a growing need for highperformance computing, which
requires vast quantities of power to
process data at high speed. To address
these challenges, the University of
Cambridge wanted to rationalise its
server rooms by building a coexisting
central data storage hub to improve
service efficiency and tackle its high
energy consumption. It also wanted
visibility into IT and infrastructure
processes, which would provide the
ability to manage them holistically.
University of Cambridge will gain
real-time insights into power, thermal
management and IT equipment to help
them manage capacity and increase
efficiencies. The new data center hub is
split into three separate halls, allowing
space for approximately 300 racks,
supported by both redundant UPS and
generators.
“As data volumes increase across
the world, data center managers
need to adapt their facilities to stay
competitive, and for the University of
“By upgrading our data center
infrastructure, we expect to
reduce our carbon footprint by
30 percent and our IT energy
costs by as much as 40 percent.”
Cambridge, this was no exception,”
said Lal Karsanbhai, president, Emerson
Network Power Europe. “We tailored
our approach to fit Cambridge’s
changing IT infrastructure needs and
implemented a solution that could be
Ian Tasker
Data Center Manager
Cambridge University
installed directly into the University’s
existing data center ecosystem. This
will allow the University to reduce its
After assessing a variety of options,
the University selected a range of
Emerson Network Power solutions,
including high power modular
Trinergy™ uninterruptible power
supplies (UPS), coupled with a Premier
Warranty service contract and LIFE™
remote diagnostic and preventive
number of server rooms and improve
visibility across its operations. Our
leading-edge products and services,
combined with the insights and
analytics from the Trellis platform, will
also enhance the system’s availability
while significantly reducing energy
consumption.”
monitoring services, as well as racks,
MPH2 rack power distribution units
Read the customer success story:
(PDU), and Emerson’s world-class data
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center infrastructure management
Cambridge
(DCIM) system, the Trellis™ platform.
By deploying the Trellis platform, the
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Paragon Internet Group
State-of-the-art Data Center
coupled with the company’s plans for
international expansion meant that the
company needed to revisit its data center
strategy in order to support its ambitious
growth plans as it had outgrown its colocation facility.
Adam Smith, director, Paragon Internet
Group, explained, “With over ten years
of co-location experience, I had seen the
right way and wrong way for data center
expansion. In order for us to realise the
full benefits of having our primary data
center in our headquarters, the project
required a vast array of expert knowledge,
which is where the individual contractors
added real value. Though we knew the end
destination, we needed experts to help us
get there – on time, and on budget.”
Paragon Internet
Group selects
Emerson Network
Power to Deliver
Enterprise-Grade
Solutions for Stateof-the-art Data
Center.
Formed in 2011, Paragon Internet Group is
the parent company of leading UK hosting
brands, TSOhost, Vidahost and HostRoute;
creating the UK’s fastest growing hosting
company.
The company now hosts over 230,000
websites for 70,000+ customers supporting
both personal and business user websites
and with a customer base growing at 3
percent every month. Despite the huge
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growth the company has experienced, it
has retained its core principle of delivering
technically superior service backed by
unbeatable customer support; a tenet
which places added importance on uptime
and reliability.
In light of its extraordinary growth,
Paragon opted to build its own state-ofthe-art, multimillion pound Tier 3-plus
2N data center in Slough, Berkshire. In
order to guarantee the highest level of
resilience, Paragon chose best-of-breed
technology partners for each aspect of the
infrastructure, selecting Emerson Network
Power to deliver thermal management
and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
solutions.
Building Blocks for
Success
Paragon Internet Group saw its cloud
hosting business rise by 277 percent
during a period of significant growth
between 2012 and 2013. This increase,
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With this in mind, Paragon began to put in
place plans to design its own data center,
which would provide the company with
unparalleled control over its business
operations; ensuring uptime, performance
and security for the group’s 70,000+ global
customers.
“Building our own data center
infrastructure was the next logical step
for our combined online businesses, as
we continue to concentrate on delivering
unbeatable customer support and
technical expertise, while focusing on
global expansion. We decided to go
down the purpose-built facility route as
an alternative to expanding on existing
co-location facilities primarily due to the
need to future proof the business, and
the scalability having our own dedicated
data center allows. Investing in our own
premises also allows for long-term cost
saving as well as increased reliability by
guaranteeing that our service delivery is in
our own hands and not those of third-party
provider,” added Adam Smith.
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Partnership is the Name
of the Game
Renowned for its enterprise-grade data
center solutions, Emerson Network Power
was selected by Paragon not only to install
professional-grade hardware, but also
to partner with Paragon to deliver true
expertise and industry knowledge.
“The team felt that Emerson Network
Power had the best understanding of the
brief, the scope of work, and the ability
to articulate and deliver technical and
commercial solutions. The team worked
closely with the key decision makers
at Paragon to show how their solution
provided the best ROI. This, along with
the demonstration that Emerson Network
Power offered the best ease of expansion
for load growth, minimised PUE as well
as scalability and energy efficiencies,
convinced us that we had the right partner
for this project,” added Adam Smith.
With potential vendors involved in the
design process, alongside architects and
building contractors, Paragon wanted
the project to be a real team effort.
Mike O’Keeffe, UK managing director,
Emerson Network Power, says, “Adam
and the Paragon team stressed how they
wanted us to work closely not only with
Paragon, but also with the other vendors
in order to devise the best solutions. This
approach made the project feel like a
genuine partnership, with leading vendors
working together to deliver a best-in-class
solution.”
has the capacity for 120 high density
racks, which significantly expands
Paragon’s previous network and will
help facilitate its rapid growth. Within
the facility, Paragon deployed Emerson
Network Power’s Liebert® PDX data
center cooling units, together with
Trinergy™ UPS systems, which not
only maximise energy efficiency, but
also guarantee enterprise standard
reliability and flexibility, backed up
by industry leading direct expansion
cooling technologies. Emerson Network
Power’s Liebert PDX solutions have also
increased the facility’s Power Utilisation
Effectiveness (PUE) and significantly
lowered its environmental impact.
Moreover, Trinergy UPS, which is ideally
suited to enterprise-scale data center
facilities, provides Paragon with realtime insights into power supply and
load conditions. By automatically
selecting the most efficient operating
mode, the Trinergy systems will
ensure that Paragon sees lower energy
consumption as well as a reduction in
CO2 emissions.
A Bright Future Ahead
As a result of this close working
relationship with the Emerson Network
Power team, Paragon’s new data center is:
Built to scale to 100 percent load with
no disruption to service and zero risk
Currently running at 20 percent of initial
cooling capacity
Running PUE 1.3, which is anticipated
to continue to improve
“This project was a true partnership,
which is a real testament to the approach
that the Paragon team has to business.
All partners worked very closely together
and the end result has justified Paragon’s
methodology,” says Mike O’Keeffe.
“Emerson Network Power’s solutions
are designed to enable expansion and
scalability of load growth in the future,
offering a distinct return on investment to
Paragon. We are very proud to have been
a part of the latest chapter in Paragon’s
incredible growth story and certainly look
forward to working closely with the team
for years to come as the company goes
from strength to strength.”
Paragon Internet Group Growth (2013 vs 2012):
„„ 70% growth in customers
„„ 58% growth in revenue
„„ 277% growth in cloud hosting products
„„ 137% growth in server sales
The Dedicated Facility
Paragon Internet Group finished
construction of its first Tier 3-plus, 2N
data center in November 2013. Its new
dedicated 20,000 square foot facility
Watch the video case study on Emerson Network Power’s YouTube channel.
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Is your Data Center Ready for
Mother Nature?
Top Tips for Availability, Efficiency and Safety.
Along with sunny days, cookouts and vacations, summer can also deliver extremes in temperature and humidity, rain,
and storms that can cause inefficient data center performance – or even cause outages. Make sure your IT operations
are ready for anything that Mother Nature can deliver by following these tips:
Cooling/Thermal Management
Maintain your humidifiers. With cold or warm
weather, humidifiers require special attention to avoid
inconvenient or costly problems such as a clogged
drain due to mineral deposits in the humidifier pan;
electrode failure in a steam humidifier; buildup from
calcium deposits, causing the humidifier to overflow.
The fix: clean humidifiers, replace bulbs, replace steam
generating canisters, check the reverse osmosis systems
in ultrasonic humidifiers
Check/change your cooling unit filters. Proper airflow
and refrigeration maintenance keeps your system from
freezing and helps to avoid performance issues
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Check the cooling unit refrigerant charge, and oil
quality and level. This keeps your system running,
and maximizes performance and efficiency
Clean your heat rejection unit coils, and clean or
replace evaporative media. Make sure dry coolers,
cooling towers and economizers are maintained and
operating at peak performance
Check for vegetation and debris around condensers
and dry coolers. Leaves, pollen, cottonwood and
other vegetation can be pulled into the outdoor units,
making heat rejection less effective and impacting your
data center’s capacity. Routine cleaning will keep your
systems operating efficiently
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Manage control setpoints. Make the necessary
adjustments for changes in heat and humidity, to
prevent condensation, IT equipment failure, or
shortened equipment life
Consider intelligent controls. Newer control systems
can impact efficiency and visibility, with benefits such as
automatically adjusting to maximize free-cooling hours
for economizer systems; controlling multiple cooling
units to work in harmony; and providing reports that
allow for managed adjustments and planning
Talk to cooling experts. Fine tuning of your controls
can have a major impact on uptime and efficiency with
the right expertise, you can maximize your system’s
performance and efficiency with proper return air
temperature, heat rejection setpoints, economization
setpoints, humidity/dewpoint setpoints, and an
assessment of your vapor barrier
Power Management
Investigate your generator control settings – the
wrong settings might drain your UPS system batteries.
Thunderstorms are a special challenge for generator
operation. Severe storms can cause utility re-closures,
which look like short duration outages to the utility. If
the generator controls are set to auto-retransfer back
to the UPS after the utility returns, the system may
be using battery energy with each transfer, possibly
leaving no battery run time for the next transfer or for a
sustained outage. The fix: some operators use a storm
scope to assess weather activity, choosing to proactively
transfer to generator operation and stay in this mode
until the storm clears, resulting in a controlled transfer
that saves battery life for a true emergency
Data Center Management
Perform emergency drills for data center staff.
Preparedness drills can help you identify holes in your
emergency plan so you can make adjustments before an
urgent situation
Make sure staff knows all emergency numbers and
your emergency escalation plan
Set up automatic notifications of alarms/alerts for
problems with your IT support systems
Have an offsite backup location – and back up the data
on schedule
Set up notifications for clients/tenants to let them
know how their data is being protected and how it
can be accessed
Keep food, drinks and other emergency supplies on
site for data center personnel who provide support
during emergencies
Do you have some good tips on preparing for weather
challenges? Let us know at:
Marketing.networkpower.emea@emerson.com
HIGHEST AVAILABILITY, MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY
OR FASTEST RETURN ON INVESTMENT?
…HAVE IT ALL.
THAT’S THE
CRITICAL DIFFERENCE.
Maintain backup generators. Perform preventive
maintenance, test and fuel up so your backup system is
ready for a sustained outage
Schedule pre-emptive maintenance of key UPS
components such as caps and fans in order to ensure
maximum reliability and continuous operation of UPS
and increased life span of components themselves. This
will ensure customer’s load continuous protection
Monitor the health of UPS batteries, and replace bad or
suspect batteries. Keep spares on hand
Monitoring
Monitor for heat, humidity and water leakages that
can impact IT equipment or infrastructure
The TrinergyTM Cube UPS goes beyond the power
revolution by hot scaling from 150 kW up to 3 MW
in a single unit and by achieving 98.5% average
operational efficiency.
Emerson Network Power introduces a new
generation of the most advanced UPS technology
for high availability facilities demanding
mission-critical uptime and maximum efficiency.
The TrinergyTM Cube UPS offers the industry's fastest
return on investment, lowest TCO and highest
availability, so you can have it all.
Come and see the UPS for yourself at the
Customer Experience Center in Bologna, Italy.
Learn more at EmersonNetworkPower.eu/Trinergy-Cube
Engage your infrastructure provider for remote
infrastructure monitoring, phone resolution and
emergency service
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Redfish
to Make a Big Splash in Data
Center Systems Management
T
echnology industry leaders Dell, Emerson Network Power, HP
and Intel have worked together to create Redfish, a new
specification under development for data center and systems
management. This effort leverages the experience of the team in IT
systems hardware, microprocessors and data center infrastructure
management technologies.
One of the most comprehensive specifications since the
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) was
launched in 1998, Redfish uses a modern network
interface style, allowing access to data using even
simple, script-based programming methods.
The Redfish specification will:
Improve scalability.
Expand data access and analysis.
Help lower costs.
Further enable feature-rich remote management.
Ensure a secure solution that protects investment.
Enhance interoperability across multiple server
environments and significantly simplify management,
allowing administrators to speak one language and be
more productive.
Enable access to massive amounts of information and efficiently
translate the data into actionable insights for system monitoring
and management.
The businesses are working with industry standards bodies and associations
to accelerate the development process, in anticipation of broad adoption of
Redfish. The specification will be submitted to the Distributed Management
Task Force for consideration by the recently created Scalable Platform
Management Forum, which has been chartered to publish a standard in this
space. Once the specification is approved, it will be publicly available.
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Raise your
standards for
desktop security
Y
ou have probably seen it in the headlines and in the
movies - security threats that can sneak through the
backdoor of computer peripherals and result in loss
of intellectual property, privacy and identity. The Boston
Globe reports: Workers scattered across more than a dozen
agencies, from the Defense and Education departments
to the National Weather Service, are responsible for at
least half of the federal cyberincidents reported each year
since 2010, They have clicked links in bogus phishing
e-mails, opened malware-laden websites, and been tricked
by scammers into sharing information, according to an
Associated Press analysis of records.1
But new improvements to protection profile standards are
helping data centers increase desktop security and prevent
these costly attacks.
Analog audio diodes to prevent audio eavesdropping
(TEMPEST levels).
Emulation of display EDID, keyboard and mouse to
avoid direct contact between computers and shared
peripherals.
Strong protection from social attacks and malicious USB
devices (such as BadUSB).
And much more
Security must be included in the initial design of the
product. This provides more focus on security than seen in
previous Peripheral Sharing Switch Protection Profiles.
Defense News Leadership poll respondents:
The greatest threat to the United States
Source: http://archive.defensenews.com/section/static26/
45.1 % Cyberwarfare
26.3% Terrorism
On February 13, 2015, the National Information Assurance
Partnership (NIAP) released the latest version of the
Protection Profile for Peripheral Sharing Switch version 3.0
(PP 3.0), which includes security enhancements for modern
peripheral switching technology.
Product range has increased. PP 3.0 supports a vast
number of new products that can be tested for use in
secure environments. These products include regular KVM
switches, KVM combiners, Video wall processors, Matrix
KVM and many other devices.
Emerson Network Power played a key role in developing PP
3.0 by serving in the Technical Community and writing key
pieces of the requirements. By understanding the direction
in which the Technical Community was heading, Emerson
has been able to design new products that will meet PP 3.0.
Here are some highlights of the new standard:
Stronger testing replaces Evaluation Assurance Levels
(EAL). Thirty times more testing is required in PP 3.0 than
there has been in previous Protection Profiles.
The definitions of the threats and functions to prevent/
propagate attacks have been updated. PP 3.0, standards
are defined to defend against evolving, advanced threats
and provide assurance that the switch will not propagate
attacks if they occur. Changes include:
Higher isolation between computer ports from digital
and analog leakages.
Future-proof technology is added. PP 3.0 includes support
for the most modern KVM technology including: USB (USB
1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and Type C); HDMI and DisplayPort video; MHL
to support mobile devices and not only computers.
PP 3.0 is internationally recognized. A true joint
international effort, PP 3.0 passed through agencies and
certification bodies in Canada, UK, Australia, Japan,
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Israel,
NATO and Brazil.
Optical data diodes to enforce unidirectional data flows.
Much stronger protection for USB ports.
Complete isolation of power domains to prevent
signaling attacks.
To learn more about new, compliant KVM technologies:
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1) http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/11/10/federal-governmentstruggles-against-cyberattacks/8ls3WW4Q5baJ9iIO5DPqfM/story.html
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High Efficiency Modes of Operation
One of the most widely discussed issues throughout the world today is
the rapidly increasing price and demand of energy supply.
long with this comes the broadening awareness of
the environmental impact and depletion of fossil
fuels, which has created a natural drive towards
energy saving and the widely encouraged use of new
renewable energy sources, energy conservation best practices,
and the development and advancement of energy efficient
standards, processes and technologies. Where maximum
uptime is paramount for many world leading organizations,
the presence of a UPS is an indispensable prerequisite for a
reliable power infrastructure able to achieve maximum load
safeguarding and conservation.
UPS systems provide clean power to electronic systems such
as computer networks and servers, building management
systems and security systems. UPS also protect against power
outages which could potentially lead to a halt in operations,
a loss of information, productivity and profit for businesses.
The energy efficiency of a UPS is considered to be the ratio
between the power entering the UPS and the power exiting
the UPS to supply power to the load. Whenever the current
passes through the internal components of a UPS, a certain
amount of energy is dissipated as heat, which results in energy
losses. Additional energy is also consumed whenever the air
conditioning operates to sustain the ideal environmental
temperature of the installation. Whilst a certain amount of
energy losses is inevitable, it is evident that the reduction
of UPS power consumption and the consequent increase of
its efficiency will significantly contribute to lowering excess
energy waste, maximizing the overall running cost-saving
of the energy bill. The savings accomplished 24 hours a day,
365 days a year over a five-year period, would not only equal
the purchase price of a UPS but also actively contribute to
reducing CO2 and other global warming emissions, ensuring
the lowest environmental impact of the chosen power
protection solution.
Nowadays, the most common UPS topology used for
supplying secure power to data centers is the double
conversion mode, which ensures a Voltage and Frequency
Independent (VFI) type of operation by providing the
highest level of power quality to the load at all times. At
the same time, as there are two stages of conversion, this
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is also the topology which uses the highest level of energy.
Even when considering a double conversion UPS, there are
massive differences in terms of double conversion efficiency
as legacy UPS may operate with 93% efficiency while the
highest efficiency double conversion UPS can achieve levels
greater than 96%. To further increase efficiency, most UPS
manufacturers introduced high energy efficiency modes of
operation, such as ECO Mode; nevertheless, most of these still
remain just marketing advertisements rather than a concrete
way of improving the data center efficiency.
If you want to learn more about what the drawbacks of ECO
Mode types of operation can be and which other techniques
exist to boost operating efficiency at a maximum, keeping
the load fully protected and without compromising system
availability, read more in the White paper High Efficiency
Modes of Operation. You will also read about the field results
achieved by the Trinergy™ UPS, which has brought new ways
of efficiency improvement to the market and has proved
to be the premium UPS solution for data centers aiming to
have the lowest possible PUE while maintaining the highest
levels of availability. Finally, you will also learn about the
recent improvements achieved with the introduction of the
Trinergy™ Cube, which further extends the benefits made
available until now through Trinergy.
for Data Center Professionals
New Offerings
Trinergy™ Cube Now Offers a New 200 kVA Power Core
Trinergy Cube, recently recognized with the 2014 EMEA Frost
& Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership, is now able
to deliver a broader choice of capacity and scalability in one
single unit with the introduction of a new 200 kVA power core.
By allowing smaller capacity increments, the new 200 kVA
power core size meets a broader variety of power system
requirements while offering the industry’s highest average
operating efficiency of 98.5 percent and up to 99.5 percent
maximum efficiency. Moreover, Trinergy Cube’s smart
capacity adapts load power supplies to the installation site
conditions, providing maximized power to the load.
The unit’s design is also extremely flexible, as Trinergy Cube
allows for hot scalability up to 3 MW in a single unit and
up to 24 MW in a parallel system and can be configured in
a vast range of layouts including a straight row, L-shape or
back-to-back. The high power density ensures that data
center managers can make the best use of available floor
space, overcoming space constraints and ever-rising real
estate costs, as well as optimising TCO.
The Trinergy Cube is complemented by sophisticated
service capabilities, delivered through Emerson Network
Power’s LIFE™ remote diagnostic and preventive
monitoring service, which provides the servicing team with
real-time analytics allowing them to recommend actions
that maintain the best operational performance as well as
enable pre-emptive and immediate issue resolution.
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Trellis™ with RESTful application programming interfaces
Trellis platform DCIM release features new RESTful APIs
(representational state transfer application programming
interfaces), enhancements to change planning capabilities,
and eight new base package reports. With these updates,
Trellis platform customers will have a fully integrated view
of their operations across both IT and facilities resources, be
able to make better capacity management decisions, and
save time and costs.
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First Secure KVM and KM switches designed to meet
new NIAP IT Security guidelines
This line of new secure KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)
and KM (Keyboard, Mouse) switches is designed to meet
the new NIAP PP 3.0 protection profile. In high-security
environments, these technologies help organizations
streamline access to critical information and increase
productivity. The new line of products includes the Cybex™
SC family of secure desktop KVM and all new KM switches.
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Enhancements to Avocent® ACS 6000 firmware,
Universal Management Gateway, DSView software,
Rack Power Manager, and KVM switches
Significant enhancements have been made across
the Avocent portfolio, ensuring best in class security
capabilities for government, multimedia, broadcast,
financial and IT operation center environments. All of the
enhanced solutions address two critical customer concerns:
enhanced security and increased remote monitoring and
management
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Next Generation Albér® Battery Management
Software Platform
Albér Battery Xplorer software platform. This new software
improves visibility and maximizes the availability of critical
power systems dependent on stationary back-up batteries
by translating data into actionable insights that enable
smarter, faster decisions.
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Highly efficient indirect evaporative freecooling
solutions for the data center
Introducing Liebert® EFC the indirect evaporative
freecooling unit that provides the most advanced Thermal
Management solution, through its innovative evaporative
cooling technology, indirect air-to-air heat exchanger and
Liebert iCOM™ control system.
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for Data Center Professionals
Are You Meeting Your
Remote IT Goals?
Score a Better Solution
If you have a network closet, computerized point
of purchase system, ATM or mobile workstation,
then you have an application that falls into the
large and growing number of remote or edge-ofIT applications. While these sites are small, they
are growing in importance–and they come with
their own set of unique challenges.
Remote but resilient. Businesses depend on
this distributed computing to have the same
availability as a large, central data center.
This means you have to treat power, heat and
communications like a big data center, but on
a smaller scale. Choose reliable technologies
that offer service and maintenance support.
Quick deployment. Remote sites require
support equipment to be easy to select,
quick to install, and ideally not a drain to your
employee resources to get things up and
running.
Visibility and Control. It can be difficult to see
what’s happening with power and support
equipment at the edge of the network. Similar
to a large data center, remote IT needs a
comprehensive monitoring and management
solution to ensure continuous operation, with
minimal time and effort from IT staff.
Budget conscious. Supporting multiple
remote locations can be hard on your IT
budget. Select solutions that offer a lower first
cost and reduced operating, but with high
reliability to minimize downtime costs.
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Here are some effective, efficient and manageable solutions that
can address the challenges of remote/edge applications:
Liebert® GXT4™ UPS
Designed for optimized resiliency, efficiency and
speed of deployment, this true on-line, rack/tower
convertible UPS provides protection from all power
anomalies.
700 - 10,000 VA
Rack/Tower convertible
Bypass, Battery, Distribution
Centralized monitoring and control compatible
ENERGY STAR® qualified models
For more information:
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Liebert APS™ UPS
Scalable, true on-line UPS provides protection from
all power anomalies, while offering the ability to grow
with your compute needs.
5 - 20 kVA
Scalable Design
Rack or Floormount
Bypass, Battery, Distribution
Centralized monitoring and control compatible
ENERGY STAR® qualified models available
For more information:
EmersonNetworkPower.eu/LiebertAPS
for Data Center Professionals
MPH2™ Managed Rack PDU
The most intelligent,
high-availability line
of managed rack
PDUs, MPH2 offers
the industry’s leading
operating temperatures,
ensuring availability even in the harsh
environment at the back of the rack.
MPH2 offers remote monitoring
and control capabilities as well as
environmental input options, with
multiple power input selections and
output configurations.
Avocent® KVM solutions
A wide selection of
KVM to meet specific
site requirements.
Includes proven, secure solutions for
guarding against cyber intrusion at
the desktop. Switches are available
that are designed to meet stringent
U.S. government specification, and
comply with the requirements of
the latest NAIP protection profile for
peripheral sharing devices 3.0.
Desktop and rack based KVM
Secure Desktop KVM
Horizontal and vertical models
KVM over IP
Remote or local monitoring at the
branch level
Analog KVM
Remote control at the
equipment level
For more information:
Compatible with environmental
sensors
KVMSelector
High performance KVM
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Integrated Infrastructure Solutions:
SmartCabinet™ is a
turn-key solution that
contains supporting
infrastructure for branch IT
applications – secure cabinet, power,
distribution, monitoring.
SmartAisle™
is a platform of
technologies designed
to optimize the
efficiency, design and operation of
the data center infrastructure. It
reduces energy consumption while
supporting higher density for IT and
networking equipment — without
compromising availability.
Rack/Enclosure
Power, Distribution
Cooling
Modular, hot-swappable
controller card
Monitoring
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MPH2
For more information:
Security
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VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
of our product portfolio and Trinergy™ Cube
architecture and its mechanical design
The Emerson Network Power
Trinergy™ Cube Explorer App and
SmartView App were created
to provide users an in-depth
virtual experience and dynamical
interaction with the 3D model of
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SmartView
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For a virtual reality experience SmartView App will offer
you the chance to explore various kinds of technologyleading content through our videos, interactive diagrams,
infographics and downloadables.
By accessing the Trinergy Cube 3D prototype you will be
able to interact and play with the augmented content
and also, you can explore its internal details at different
levels with a 360° view and engage with an interactive
demonstration of the Trinergy Cube’s touch screen display,
browsing all its features and settings.
Download the apps to discover all the features of our extensive
product portfolio and witness Trinergy™ Cube come to life:
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