Delta’s core competence in high-efficiency power electronics and expertise in the integration of energy-saving solutions have been demonstrated in the green data centre segment. Delta Electronics India was perfectly positioned to develop Delta InfraSuite precision cooling solutions to provide practical, optimized, innovative methods for data centre cooling. It has been designed to ensure high product performance. Cooling units can be installed in modular rack design, enabling quick configuration and is readily expandable by the load. Delta is also a leading UPS manufacturer of true modular hot-swappable UPSs, which are industry best in redundancy, ease of operations, flexibility, highest density, and highest MTBf. Deepak Thakur, Business Head, UPS & Data Center Solutions, shares his views on the data centre segment and highlights the solutions offered. Excerpts from the interview…
How do you assess the trend in data centres with increased power capacity in India?
Data Center sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in India. With emerging innovative technologies and government support, India is likely to rise as the world’s largest data center hub strengthening the data center park throughout the nation.India has the potential to become a lucrative market for the data center provider as there is favorable real estate support, power capacity, submarine fiber cables landing stations, and demand for data storage that will propel the growth of data center infrastructure.In the last few years, the reliability of power has improved, especially in some major states. The government has realized the significance of data centers and its impact on the economy as well as potential investment, thus taking various measures to support the ecosystem, which also includes providing land options with sufficient power availability and usage of renewable energy resources.
Further, with the government’s decision for the data localization against storing it outside the country, will add to the development of data centers in India. These opportunities are supporting the big hyperscales that focus on major expansions in the Indian market, extending their new builds within colocation facilities, and showing interest in building their own facilities.
How do you assess the move towards Tier IV category due to the growth in rack power density and critical applications? What is the bearing of this on POD service providers like Delta?
The adoption of server infrastructure is majorly influenced by rack servers that account for over 70% of the market share. The significant factor to this growth is increasing requirements of the high-density servers as a result of more complex computation needs and development in the emerging technologies, which includes edge computing, IoT, and data analytics. further enterprises that are require 24/7 round the clock data center solutions and have several critical applications that can never be down; for them, the preferable option is tier IV data centers. With the tier IV data center, a business can expect a consistent performance at all hours with minimum downtime throughout the year. Thus operational sustainability plays a major role in site availability, which can be ensured in tier IV data centers. They are designed to offer constant availability of the services with reliability, which are essential for the growth of businesses and enhances the customer’s trust for the organization.
At Delta Electronics India, we understand the emerging demand of the enterprises for the data center solutions. To meet this requirement, we offer solutions for modular data centers such as the InfraSuite, which has been widely accepted by users in the market. Our Delta InfraSuitedatacenter infrastructure Solutions provides integrated design and scalable system architecture that supports customers in building an optimal datacenter with fully-integrated infrastructure solutions. Modular data center adopt a modular, standardized, and highly-integrated design that makes the system more stable. In addition, modular data centers can provide configuration solutions such as N, N+1 and 2N to support electricity back-up depending on the customer’s requirements to reach the highest TIA-942 Tier 4 level.
Could you enlighten us on the latest trends in power management techniques for data centres?
The focus is to make the technology more energy efficient and integrate renewable sources for the power requirement of the data centre infrastructure. With the preceding time, the data centre infrastructure by power capacity is expected to grow as the solar energy potential in Karnataka is expected to exceed 24/7 GW. This can be a major advantage for the operators to meet the power requirement of their facilities thought solar energy solutions. Another significant aspect is to increase the data centre efficiency that will support the industry to manage the growing workload without a major increase in electricity demand. This requires designing high energy-efficient cooling solutions. The energy demand for cooling solutions has been one of the primary reasons for the over low energy efficiency of the data centres. Thus, the trend is to adopt cooling solutions that understand these challenges and provide solutions that meet the cooling demand at optimum energy needs.
What is Delta’s contribution in power management techniques that ensures high-performance and low-costs, also increasing efficiency without sacrificing uptime?
As a leading global manufacturer of fans and a specialist in power management, Delta Electronics India was perfectly positioned to develop Delta InfraSuiteprecision cooling solutions to provide practical, optimized, innovative methods for data centre cooling. It has been designed to ensure high product performance. Cooling units can be installed in modular rack design, enabling quick configuration and is readily expandable by the load. We are also a leading UPS manufacturer of true modular hot-swappable UPSs, which are industry best in redundancy, ease of operations, flexibility, highest density, and highest MTBF. Downtime in the data centre can not only cost high to business but can also impact the continuity. Thus a modular hot-swappable UPS is the best option for meeting these challenges and help in maintaining the continuity. Delta UPS solutions modular hotswappable UPS comes with a unique feature Green Mode or Sleep Mode function. This offers to schedule the critical power modules operating as per load requirements, desired redundancy and balance power modules can be placed in green/ sleep mode. The sleep mode power modules come to active mode within 2ms as and when needed, hence improving overall efficiency
There is a perceptible trend in moving towards greener data centres? What contributory role Delta play here with its solutions? How green are the solutions from Delta?
At Delta our focus is to provide a complete range of solutions that can deliver the industry best technology to support the growing ecosystem with a vision of DeltaPoweringGreenEnergy. Our aim to provide innovative, clean and energy-efficient solutions for a better tomorrow. We are constantly developing technology to strengthen our offerings in data centre solutions, UPS solutions and power quality solutions where the objective is to provide variable applications and solutions that can support the growing industry demand and are sustainable. Being a leader in the global market, we are working towards bringing our deep industry expertise and engineering capabilities to India to fulfil the highly demanding needs industry showcasing the DNA of our belief of DeltaPoweringGreenIndia. How do you ensure minimizing the total energy costs of data-centre operation while providing a reliable thermal environment? Delta Data Center Solutions with an aim to support customers in building green data centres that use less than 75% of the energy consumed offers Delta InfraSuite Data Center Infrastructure Solutions that features modularity, manageability, agility, efficiency and reliability. Its four modules include power management, rack solution and accessories, precision cooling, and environment management systems that offer integrated services for data centre infrastructure. These modules optimize customers’ ability to maximize operating efficiency at the lowest cost, maintain a high level of flexibility and control for IT managers, quickly scale to meet demand, and monitor data centre solutions 24/7/365 from anywhere around the world. Delta InfraSuiteprecision cooling solutions offers the most reliable and efficient cooling solutions. It provides adequate heat removal for data centres resolving issues like uneven heat distribution, load variations experienced during peak and off-peak periods, and high power density. Delta InfraSuite Precision Cooling solutions employ either chilled water or refrigerant types to remove the heat produced by the hardware within the data centre. Cooling units can be installed in a modular rack design, which enables quick configuration and is readily expandable by load. Data centre cooling by water is safe for the equipment it protects due in part to built-in leakage detectors, which can display leaks and offer alerts in a timely manner. With manual dehumidification capacity, Delta’s data centre cooling system offers a rapid and precise means of adjusting the level of moisture within the air, and keeping humidity levels within the ideal range required by the data centre equipment.
Could you brief us on the latest predictive power management technique for saving power in data centres? Please brief us on troubleshooting, diagnostics and services back up provided?
With the rising demand for computing and storage, it is essential to keep a check on energy consumption to avoid high power costs, where DCIM solutions are becoming necessary in reducing costs. Apart from minimizing data centre operating expenses, DCIM solutions also help businesses achieve the operative objective and strategize the future plan. We have Delta InfraSuite Manager Solutions that belongs among the ranks of the truly comprehensive DCIM solutions that are designed to cover all of the enterprise’s infrastructure management needs. InfraSuite Manager was designed with a modular structure, including seven modules, to ease implementation and simplify later upgrades. This module includes a base model (operations), energy, slide show, assets, capacity, work order asset inspection. With the implementation of DCIM solutions, an enterprise can enable better capacity management, detecting problems that can limit availability, reducing energy consumption, increasing asset utilization, and reducing staffing needs.
Also tell us about product compatibility with key applications from leading IT innovators?
We are working on edge computing technologies where the challenge is faster deployment, specifically in the banking segment, manufacturing segment, and defence segment. For which we are making standardized blocks that can be customized in design suiting the customer requirements. It includes self-contained edge data centres like iCool Rack, iCool Row, and Micro Data centres. Our containerized data centre solutions have become a leading choice for edge computing and disaster-recovery data centres. With flexibility, agility, rapid deployment, high integration, and excellent energy efficiency, they are making a mark in winning our clients’ trust. The solution offers a modular design that fully integrates high-efficiency power supply, precision cooling, comprehensive monitoring, and airflow management, wiring, and piping systems in one 20- or 40-feet container. This not only reduces the cost of the data centre construction but also shortens the construction time effectively, enabling quick and flexible system deployment. Instead of the two-year construction time required by traditional data centres, our containerized data centres only take a few months to be operational. The fully prefabricated, pretested, and complete configurations of Delta’s containerized data centre solutions satisfy the highly demanding needs of mobile edge computing needs. In terms of energy consumption, they offer high energy efficiency as subsystems, including UPS, power distribution, batteries, cooling, and highly integrated racks.
What are the major challenges as a service provider Delta face?
At Delta, we believe, every opportunity is an opportunity, but every challenge is a much bigger opportunity. While going about our usual business, we also continuously study the market challenges to develop new products and solutions. Increasing digitization and rapid technology shift is enabling more and more data generation, putting pressure on infrastructure and data centre ecosystems. Businesses are exploring new horizon for the faster adoption of more modern technologies like AI, VR, Drones, SmartHomes, SmartFactories, and IoT. As enterprises focus on integrating these technologies, they require a fast change in their physical infrastructure to meet the critical power and cooling solutions requirements. Delta Electronics India, with its full potential, is supporting the customers and industry with its critical power solutions and cooling solutions to make sure that we help our customers create new or retrofit existing infrastructures more robust, reliable, flexible, available, and energy efficient.
How do you foresee the future trends in power management techniques? What is the new / innovative solution Delta is excited at from your R&D?
Data venture infrastructure has witnessed the evolution of ICT equipment rooms to cloud data centre solutions. With the development of technologies like AI, cloud computing, BigData, and 5G will lead to an increase in data centre solutions demand. This will require innovation in data centre technologies and solutions that focus on building a robust ecosystem and resolving the industry’s key challenges. A balance between efficiency and cost will be essential, where power management solutions will play a vital role. At present, the total energy requirement of data centres accounts for 3% of the overall power consumption. Going ahead, the trend will be to resolve challenges such as energy-saving, reduction in emission, and operating expenses (OPEX). The focus will be on reducing the power usage effectiveness (PUE) of data centres and building GreenDataCentres. At Delta Electronics India, we are constantly developing innovative technologies and solutions that will support the rising demand of the market and build a robust data centre ecosystem. We invest 6-7% of our sales revenue globally on Research & Development, which reflects in our products innovations. Thus for us the main focus is to offer the best in technology and solutions to our customers that enhance their business requirements and are sustainable.
The interview was published in Construction Times
