面向高密度應用的高效供電和冷卻觖決方案

全面介紹施耐德旗下的APC的高效企業(Efficient EnterpriseTM)

吉隆坡- 2008年7月25日 – 施耐德旗下的APC的高效企業（Efficient Enterprise™）將供電、冷卻和管理組件無縫合成，使其智能高效運行,從而降低運營費用,讓您獲得更多的電力，更有效的控制和更豐厚的收益。

革命性的企業架構: Efficient Enterprise™ 是通過先驅性的解決方案來解決當前企業所面臨的嚴峻挑戰。它將供電、冷卻和管理組件無縫合成，使其智能高效運行,從而降低運營費用，讓您獲得更多的電力，更有效的控制和更豐厚的收益。

要保証高效率,就必須杜絕意外發生的可能性.這意味要盡可能避免無必要的浪費。針對傳統大型的冷卻系統能解決機房中局部性熱點的方法是對整個機房進行冷卻效，像這樣的運作方式將導致電源的無謂浪費。我們需要在必要時段對此採取電源節約的行動，并根除過度規劃而導致設備無法得到充分利用所造成的浪費，以及避免無法及時充分了解數據中心供電和冷卻實際情況所導致的浪費。

電力的輸入 = 熱量的輸出

這是一個很簡單的公程式，但也絕對是一個棘手的難題。所有輸入到數據中心以保証設備正常正常運行的電力所產生的熱空气都需要排到室外，以避免机房內部產生過熱的狀態。數據中心所消耗的電力越多，所需要排出室外的熱量也相對的多。

針對傳統機房的空調設備可以保証均勻分布、低密度設備的散熱,但它的功效無法將高密度應用所產生的熱空氣徹底排出室外。同時，它也無法對某個區域或某個機櫥進行針對性冷卻，從而無法解決与散熱相關的氣流分配問題。

Efficient Enterprise™通過運用 “4C”的理念, 充分提高數據中心的效率，兼有效提高數據中心環境的可預測性並杜絕能源的浪費，從而實現節能、提高可用性的方式以助您達到業務持續增長的目標。 這 “4C”包括: (1) 熱空氣遏製、 (2)緊靠熱源的冷卻、 (3) 應用合理規劃的組件和 (4) 容量管理。對於Efficient Enterprise™所涉及的 “4C”， 促使您全面的投入，並獲得豐厚的回報。 即使是面對傳統的冷卻系統， 我們仍可為您提供新穎的解決方案， 使您投入的每一分錢都物有所值。

1 熱空气遏制
向數據中心輸送冷空氣是件較容易的事，但要將熱空氣排出室外卻很難。 當高密度應用產生的熱空氣与機房中溫度較低的冷空氣混合后，數據中心內的氣流狀況將變得無法預測，並且還會出現局部性 “熱點”。

傳統冷卻系統針對此問題的方法是補充更多的冷空氣和降低溫度設置點，但此問題出現的根源是氣流分配的問題， 上述方法並無法奏效。 APCTM的熱通道氣流遏製系統通過將風和回風通路的徹底分開，以確保適宜的空氣流通。在熱通道完全密封的情況之下，熱空氣的最初產生將對其進行充分的遏製，從原理方面排除其与機房中溫度較低的冷空氣混合的可能性。 當空氣流通路徑得到充分的控制，既可有效的提升可預測性的機率。

2. 緊靠熱源的冷卻
創新的APC InRow™架構採用緊靠熱源的冷卻設計理念，大大縮短了熱源与排熱系統之間的距離，進而保証對產生熱量的位置進行充分冷卻功能，及避免設備產生的熱空氣与周圍的冷空氣混合，排除了熱空氣回到敏感的IT設備的可能性。

傳統的室內冷卻系統採用 “整體冷卻” 的方式來解決局部性熱點問題，但其效果並不顯著。

3. 應用合理規劃的組件
各企業如能面對蒸蒸日上的業務理所當然是件好事, 但這也帶來較大的不可預測的可能性。 企業往往會過度規劃其組件, 使其遠遠超出當前的實際需要。 根據供電和冷卻的理念，這些過度規劃的組件會造成資源的巨大浪費。

針對針對這種情況, APCTM推出了基於 “邊成長邊投資” 理念的模式化可擴展架構，使您可以根據實際需要對某些設備或區域進行針對性供電和冷卻功能。 合理規劃的架構有助您有效擴展業務, 而無需位閑置的設備支付額外的成本。

4. 可預測的容量管理
有了APCTM企業管理軟件應用配套, 您可以輕鬆管理數據中心的整個運行週期。其提供的強大平台使您可以充分优化資源、對未來的需求進行精確估計，從容應對不可預測的變化。

APC by Schneider Electric Announces TradeOff Tools™—Web-based Applications that Simplify the Data Center Decision Making Process

New Tools Enable Customers to Experiment with Numerous Scenarios to Validate Overall Design Choices

KUALA LUMPUR – July 14, 2008 – APC, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced the debut of APC TradeOff Tools™, new Web-based applications with easy-to-use interfaces designed for use in the early stages of data center concept and design development. By enabling data center professionals to experiment with various scenarios regarding virtualization, efficiency, power sizing, capital costs, and other key design issues, APC TradeOff Tools break down major data center planning decisions into a series of smaller, more manageable decisions. Use of these tools helps validate, through modeling, the overall design of a data center.

“Customers need to make many key decisions during any data center project, and they do not always have the necessary information to guide them,” said J.C Ong, Country Manager of APC Malaysia “Many of their concerns are not addressed by configuration tools because they occur early in the concept selection process. With the introduction of APC’s TradeOff Tools, when a roadblock arises, the data center decision maker can easily find a tool to deal with their specific issue, get a quick answer, and continue on in the concept selection process.”

The seven tools are currently available on the http://tools.apc.com section of the APC Web site. They include:

Carbon Calculator
Illustrates how changes to a data center’s location, efficiency, and power load can impact carbon dioxide emissions and the electric bill. This provides management with a general indication of how “green” their data center is today and how “green” it could be.

Energy Efficiency Calculator
Profiles a data center and calculates the resulting efficiency and electrical cost based on data center characteristics. Users can then understand the impact each key data center decision has on the data center’s efficiency.

Capital Cost Calculator
Identifies key data center physical infrastructure parameters and calculates capital costs based on those parameters. This allows data center users to judge how changes to data center location, IT load, and cooling and power infrastructure can impact overall capital costs.

Virtualization Energy Cost Calculator
Comprehends IT and physical infrastructure characteristics and calculates energy savings resulting from the virtualization of servers. This allows the user to test the impact of virtualization and various physical infrastructure improvements on their data center floor space and on their energy consumption.

Power Sizing Calculator
Defines basic characteristics of the IT load and calculates how much utility input power would be required to support such a load. This provides users with a general idea of how much power in kilowatts they will need to run their data center.

InRow™ Containment Selector
Generates a prototype rack and row cooling configuration based on the user’s preferences and the physical constraints of the room. This provides the user with their optimal InRow cooling containment configuration.

AC vs. DC Calculator
Compares four different AC and DC power distribution architectures and calculates their respective efficiencies. This allows the user to make an educated decision on the optimal architecture for their data center.

APC’s Data Center Science Center (DCSC) designed the APC TradeOff Tools. The DCSC team of engineers and analysts researches data center issues and helps develop design and learning tools that assist data center professionals in managing their data centers. For more information about APC and the TradeOff Tools, please call 800-877-4080 or visit APC’s Web site at www.apc.com.

APC-MGE委J.C Ong任馬來西亞經理

APC-MGE Appoints J.C Ong as Malaysia Country Manager

Kuala Lumpur, February 27, 2008, -- APC-MGE, a global leader in critical power and cooling services, recently announced the appointment of J.C Ong as Country Manager for APC-MGE Malaysia. He will be reporting to George Kong, General Manager of ASEAN for APC-MGE.

According to George Kong “We are delighted to have Ong leading APC-MGE’s business in the Malaysia. Ong will continue to foster open and ongoing communication with our local stakeholders, in particular our customers, partners and employees, supporting their needs from the desktop to the data center to the factory floor. With ultimate responsibility for the complete care of our customers, Ong will continue to gain and accelerate market share through the delivery of the industry’s most comprehensive solution and service in the power, cooling and management of the specific needs of the Malaysia’s marketplace.”

Ong graduated from Leeds Polytechnic, United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Science in Production Engineering. Prior to his appointment, Ong was the General Manager of MGE UPS systems Malaysia Sdn Bhd for twelve years. Under his leadership, MGE UPS system gained more market share in the UPS sector and had secured some big-scaled government linked projects. He was later promoted to Managing Director of MGE UPS System Sdn Bhd to take the company to greater heights and drive further revenue growth for the Malaysian market.

With the merger between APC and MGE, Ong is then promoted to Country Manager to handle a wide range of management responsibilities in the UPS fields including, profit and loss, Customer service, Sales, Sales technical support. His directions as the new country manager is to continue to leverage the exploding opportunities in data centers, large and medium sized enterprises, call centers, banking and other service-oriented businesses.

Maintaining leadership in the Power Protection market, building a world-class team of professionals who can deliver value to the customers consistently, further strengthening solutions in the Enterprise space and most importantly establishing APC-MGE as a leading global provider of critical power and cooling services, are amongst his key tasks in his new role.

“I am delighted to take on this challenge during such an exciting time for APC-MGE and for our industry. The Malaysia APC-MGE team stands ready to partner with our customers as they strive to meet their business objectives and address the challenging requirements of powering and cooling the latest technology required to meet these objectives.”

APC-MGE was formed in February 2007 when Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined its market leadership with that of MGE UPS SYSTEMS. Laurent Vernerey, executive vice president of Schneider Electric, is APC-MGE’s president and CEO.