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Data center white space

White space is the backbone of any efficient data center, housing critical computing systems that drive essential operating tasks. In order to fully maximize the potential of your white space, it must be designed with adaptability, efficient power distribution and longevity in mind. Eaton specializes in creating customized solutions that ensure your white space infrastructure operates at peak performance. Discover how Eaton's solutions can help contribute to the growth, reliability and long-term success of your data center.

Adaptability

Adaptability in the data center white space is key to maintaining long-term operational efficiency and competitiveness. To properly assess how adaptable your data center is, scalability, flexibility and applicability measures must be met. Together these elements enable a data center to remain resilient while accommodating shifts in growth, function and technological advancements.

Scalability

When data centers are designed with scalability in mind, it allows for expansion initiative to be considered without the fear of future reconstruction challenges and costly system overhauls. By building scalability into the threads of white space designs, organizations can not only save time and money, but they can successfully future-proof their operations as well.

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Flexibility

Rack density flexibility is a key factor in the design and operation of a data center's white space. Flexibility ensures that your system can easily grow to meet changing demands, whether it’s for hardware upgrades, server additions, or power and cooling adjustments. Rack density flexibility also addresses how efficiently equipment is housed within the white space. Higher rack density accommodates more hardware to be stored in the same environment, optimizing the use of available space while reducing power demands.

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Applicability

In this context, applicability is defined as multi-tenant capabilities. With multi-tenancy in play, a single data center can successfully support various clients, each with their own unique operational needs and resources. Multi-tenant designs offer significant cost benefits, by reducing the utilization of separate client infrastructures, while subsequently prioritizing the data safety of each individual client. 

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Management

The white space environment of a data center houses the core infrastructure where essential resources such as power, cooling, and physical space are strategically used. Optimal utilization of this environment enhances energy efficiency and reduces downtime risks for your operation.

Temperature support and thermal management

As rack density increases, effective cooling becomes crucial. Modern data centers typically employ hot/cold aisle configurations to manage the temperature in specific areas, ensuring optimal performance and preventing overheating. Learn how Eaton's cooling solutions can help you effectively manage the climate of your white space data center.

Monitoring dynamic changes

Software management relies on predictive maintenance to continuously monitor data center conditions. With the help of smart sensors, alarms, digital audits, remote administration and much more, Eaton's suite of software management solutions helps you monitor your data center with ease. Learn more today.

Power distribution

Effective power distribution goes beyond keeping a system running; it optimizes energy flow to enhance long-term efficiency, sustainability and operational cost reduction. As data centers evolve, the ability to allocate and monitor power becomes imperative for managing growth, minimizing energy waste, and ensuring power reliability.

When designing within the white space, one key consideration is the electrical distribution system. To ensure maximum uptime for users, complex electrical solutions are necessary to prevent server racks from powering down. However, with the shift to higher density electrical systems, the likelihood of experiencing fault current activities within your data center increases.

A well-equipped data center is backed with reliable and redundant power systems, often connecting equipment to UPS systems and backup generators to ensure continuous power distribution. Given the high-power density, specialized electrical infrastructures are essential to meet the demands of your computing equipment. Discover how Eaton can help you effectively power your white space infrastructure and minimize disruptions.

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Safety and longevity

Prioritizing safety in the data center directly contributes to its operational longevity. Protected systems are more reliable, more resilient, more valuable and more efficient than those that left unprotected.
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Lifeproofing your white space data center is crucial for long-term reliability, allowing the infrastructure to adapt to future demands without compromising performance. Prioritizing robust safety precautions not only extends the lifespan of equipment but also ensures the safety of those maintaining it, while simultaneously reducing risks and ensuring operational resilience. To guarantee safety and longevity, servicing the white space must be prioritized. Proper servicing enables necessary repairs and replacements to be addressed without shutting down your entire system.