Data Center - High Performance Infrastructure

The Powerhouse of the Digital Age: A Comprehensive Look at Data Centers

Data centers are the unsung heroes of the digital age. These massive facilities house the ever-growing mountain of information that powers our online world, from social media platforms and streaming services to corporate databases and scientific research. Understanding the intricate workings of data centers is crucial in an era where our lives are increasingly reliant on the smooth operation of these technological powerhouses.

Server Infrastructure: The Core of the Data Center

Servers are the workhorses of a data center. These powerful computers process, store, and manage the vast amount of data flowing through the facility. Server infrastructure encompasses the physical hardware, software, and networking components that enable servers to function effectively.

Types of Servers:

Rack Servers: Compact and versatile, rack servers are ideal for high-density deployments where space is a premium. They are commonly used for web hosting, email, and collaboration applications.
Blade Servers: These modular servers share a common chassis, offering increased processing power and scalability in a smaller footprint. They are well-suited for virtualized environments and high-performance computing tasks.
Tower Servers: Freestanding and self-contained, tower servers are often used for administrative tasks, file sharing, and smaller applications. They provide a good balance of performance and affordability.

Server Hardware:

Central Processing Unit (CPU): The brain of the server, the CPU executes instructions and performs calculations. Modern data centers often utilize multi-core processors for enhanced processing power.
Memory (RAM): Temporary storage for data actively being processed by the CPU. Faster RAM speeds improve server performance.
Storage: Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and Solid-State Drives (SSDs) store data permanently. HDDs offer larger capacities at lower costs, while SSDs provide superior speed and reliability.

Server Software:

Operating System (OS): Software that manages the server's resources and provides a platform for running applications. Popular options include Windows Server, Linux, and VMware ESXi.
Virtualization Software: Enables a single physical server to run multiple virtual machines, improving resource utilization and operational efficiency.
Application Software: Specific software programs that perform tasks like database management, web hosting, or email services.

Server Infrastructure

The Foundation that holds IT/CT systems together. Server infrastructure includes physical and virtual resources across hardware , software, network resources and related services.

Primary Storage

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Data Protection

Eliminate complexity across physical, virtual and cloud storage tiers while developing strategies to control data volume growth and streamline how you store, manage and leverage data assets.

Sustainable Technology

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Server Networking:

Network Interface Cards (NICs): These cards connect servers to the data center network, allowing them to communicate and share data.
Switches and Routers: Network devices that direct data traffic between servers and other network components.
Data Protection: Safeguarding the Digital Vault

Data security is paramount in a data center. Data protection measures ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive information. Here are some key strategies:

Data Backup and Recovery: Regularly backing up data to on-site or off-site locations enables restoration in case of system failures or disasters.
Encryption: Data encryption scrambles data using a secret key, making it unreadable to unauthorized users.
Access Control: Implementing strict access controls limits who can access and modify data. This includes user authentication, authorization levels, and strong password policies.
Disaster Recovery Planning: Having a comprehensive plan in place helps data centers recover quickly from disruptions like natural disasters or cyberattacks

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: A Boon for Modern IT Operations

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has emerged as a game-changer for organizations seeking to simplify, streamline, and optimize their IT infrastructure. By converging compute, storage, and networking resources into a single, pre-configured system, HCI offers a plethora of benefits that can significantly enhance IT operations and agility. Let's delve deeper into the key advantages of adopting HCI:

1. Simplification and Reduced Complexity: Traditional IT infrastructure often involves a complex web of disparate servers, storage systems, and networking components. Managing these siloed systems can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive task. HCI eliminates this complexity by integrating all resources into a single, unified platform. This centralized management simplifies provisioning, configuration, and ongoing maintenance, freeing up valuable IT staff time and resources.

2. Enhanced Scalability and Agility: Businesses today operate in a dynamic environment where IT needs can fluctuate rapidly. HCI excels in this scenario as it allows for easy scaling of resources – compute, storage, or both – on-demand. Additional nodes can be seamlessly added to the cluster to accommodate growing workloads or new applications. This scalability empowers organizations to adapt their IT infrastructure quickly to changing business requirements.

3. Improved Resource Utilization and Cost Efficiency: Legacy infrastructure often suffers from resource underutilization, leading to wasted capacity and increased expenditure. HCI addresses this by dynamically allocating resources based on actual workload demands. This efficient utilization translates to significant cost savings on hardware, software licenses, and energy consumption.

4. Increased Resource Availability and Disaster Recovery: HCI systems are architected with built-in redundancy. This means that if a node fails, the remaining nodes can take over its workload, ensuring minimal downtime and continuous application availability. Furthermore, HCI often integrates with robust data replication and recovery features, enabling organizations to quickly restore data in case of disasters or outages.

5. Streamlined IT Management: Traditional IT management often involves juggling multiple tools and consoles to manage separate systems. HCI offers a single pane of glass for managing the entire infrastructure. This unified management interface simplifies tasks such as provisioning, patching, and monitoring, boosting IT team productivity and efficiency.

6. Faster Deployment and Time to Value: Deploying a traditional IT infrastructure can be a lengthy and complex process. HCI, on the other hand, is typically pre-configured and easy to deploy. This translates to faster time to value, allowing organizations to reap the benefits of the new infrastructure quickly.

7. Improved Application Performance: HCI systems are often designed with high-performance components like solid-state drives (SSDs) and high-bandwidth networking. This translates to significant gains in application performance, leading to a better user experience and increased productivity across workflows.

8. Enhanced Security: HCI vendors prioritize security by integrating security features like role-based access control and data encryption directly into the platform. This centralized approach simplifies security management and strengthens the overall security posture of the IT infrastructure.

9. Ideal for Remote and Branch Offices: HCI's compact and scalable nature makes it perfect for remote and branch offices with limited IT staff. The centralized management allows for easy remote administration, eliminating the need for dedicated IT personnel at each location.

10. Future-proof Infrastructure: HCI platforms are designed to be modular and scalable. This flexibility allows organizations to easily adapt their infrastructure to incorporate new technologies and applications as their business needs evolve.

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High-Performance Architectuire (HPA)

HPA strategically combines high-performance computing workflows, AI/ML development workflows and core IT infrastructure components into a single architectural framework designed to meet intense data demands of AI advanced solutions.

Data Center Networking

Data center networking provides the connectivity between servers and data for applications critical to the business

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Beyond the Core Benefits:

The advantages of HCI extend beyond the core benefits listed above. Here are some additional points to consider:

Reduced Physical Footprint: By consolidating multiple systems into a single unit, HCI helps to minimize the physical footprint of the data center. This translates to savings on space and energy costs.
Improved Disaster Recovery Capabilities: HCI often integrates with robust data replication and disaster recovery features, enabling organizations to recover data quickly in case of outages.
Greater IT Staff Productivity: The simplified management and automation capabilities of HCI free up valuable IT staff time, allowing them to focus on more strategic initiatives.

HCI presents a compelling proposition for organizations seeking to streamline IT operations, boost agility, and optimize resource utilization. With its numerous benefits, HCI is well-positioned to play a central role in the evolution of modern data centers. Whether your organization is a large enterprise or a growing business, HCI offers a path towards a more efficient, scalable, and future-proof IT infrastructure.

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PARTNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT

TECBOMO has joined forces with Vertiv, a leading global provider of critical infrastructure technologies for vital applications, to deliver a comprehensive data center solution that ensures optimal performance and efficiency. Through this strategic partnership, TECBOMO leverages its expertise in managed services, data center design, construction, and maintenance, while Vertiv brings its industry-leading portfolio of cooling, power, IT infrastructure, and services. This collaboration empowers TECBOMO to provide organizations in Charles County, Maryland and beyond with a single point of contact for all their data center needs. By combining TECBOMO's experience with Vertiv's best-in-class technologies, organizations can ensure their data centers operate at peak efficiency, keeping their critical IT systems up and running smoothly. This not only translates to cost savings and improved operational uptime but also gives organizations the peace of mind that their data is always protected and accessible. With TECBOMO and Vertiv working together, organizations can focus on their core business objectives while TECBOMO and Vertiv handle the critical task of keeping their data centers humming.

VERTIV SOLUTIONS

Thermal Management

Get efficient and reliable heat management and humidity control solutions geared to your specific size, location and business goals. Using high-performance thermal management systems, you can improve protection of your data centers and critical IT spaces, while reducing operating costs and enhancing their revenue potential. Vertiv solutions promise the world’s most reliable, sustainable and cost effective management of heat for your critical spaces. We design, build and continually innovate new technologies that are redefining our space. With solutions that are intelligent, self-optimizing and rapidly deployable, you can continually meet your IT challenges and demands.

Heat Rejection

Every data center cooling system requires a heat rejection unit in order to deliver the expected performance. Vertiv has designed their outdoor condensing units, including air-cooled outdoor condensers, with you in mind, to ensure organizations reach unparalleled levels of cost saving and efficiency.

High Density Solutions

To satisfy the immense amounts of data needed at the fingertips of the user you need to increase the power density in your edge data center. But high-power densities also need high-density cooling systems. And that is why we, at Vertiv, developed a full range of high-density, holistic data center cooling solutions.

Outdoor Packaged Systems

Room Cooling

A data center air conditioning system must always be viewed holistically. Paired with cutting-edge room cooling solutions, the holistic approach enables us to support a vast range of applications, from small computer rooms to enterprise data centers. Our experts work with the latest cooling technology and ensure the thermal system's components are integrated, monitored and optimized.

In-Row Cooling

When it comes to the temperature at which your critical systems operate, it must not only be within optimum parameters, but also constant and reliable. That is our forward-looking approach to thermal management in data centers, telecom critical infrastructures, and other facilities. Let's enable your IT equipment to run at peak performance, in optimal temperatures.

Rack Cooling

Higher data transfer speeds, low latency, and constant availability require more computing power, which in turn means higher power densities per rack. For your unique performance requirements to be achieved, the servers in the rack must operate at peak capacity and within the optimum temperature. We're with you in reaching that goal, through future-proofed rack cooling solutions.

Evaporative Free Cooling

Let's re-imagine the heat management in our data center, by deploying evaporative free cooling solutions that will take you to an unparalleled level of efficiency and reliability. Future-proof your cooling system, with the largest selection of air handling solutions, combined with the expert guidance to help you select, implement and maintain the right integrated and customized solutions......

Free Cooling Chillers

When it comes to cooling the critical system in your small to mid-sized computer room, you may be able to take advantage of high operating temperature ratings for equipment and low ambient temperatures outside the data center. We're here to help you design a system utilizing our free cooling chillers working with our in-row cooling solutions which can deliver PUE levels <1.2.

Thermal Control and Monitoring

Leveraging your thermal management systems to support business objectives such as improving energy efficiency and cutting costs takes superior system insight and control. Continuous thermal monitoring and real-time data allow you to make system adjustments based on your load requirements. This agility will optimize data center cooling and overall performance.

Racks & Enclosures

You want optimal performance, easy deployment and scalability for your IT systems and data centers. Our data center racks, cabinets and enclosure solutions provide support and protection to your critical IT and facilities. As you grow your business, our modular solutions and mobile designs adapt to your space and budget needs.

Integrated Solutions

The digital transformation we will see in the next decade, including the rise of 5G, will take place mainly at the edge of the network. To create and maintain strong edge computing, solid IT infrastructure needs to be rapidly deployed in remote locations as efficiently as possible. Anticipate this trend sustainably, with Vertiv's integrated solutions, including prefabricated rack, row, aisle, and modular data centers, built in flexible designs based on proven configurations.

Racks and Containment

In the modern data center landscape, standardization is becoming the norm. But not everywhere and not done randomly. The first place you'd want to start data center normalization is the racking systems and containment solutions. Starting with flexible, easily installed, adaptable and pre-configured customized server racks and network cabinets saves you costs, footprint and it increases the performance, efficiency, and reliability of your critical infrastructure.

Outdoor Enclosures

Expanding the network edge means deploying IT infrastructure in remote locations with uncertain access and edge computing power management. Make the most of our decades of experience in managing remote locations globally and designing extensive outdoor enclosure offerings, which not only protect your vital electronic equipment from vandalism and environmental damage, but it also ensures it runs in optimal conditions for peak performance levels.

Power IT. Protect IT.

MONITORING & MANAGEMENT

Build flexibility, resiliency and scalability into your IT management system. Expand the number of user sessions (remote or on premise) with higher bandwidth, and automate deployment and configuration tasks; Enterprise to Edge. We’re here to help you streamline duties and reduce complexity, while providing the responsiveness, security and uptime your business requires to sustain growth.

The Vertiv Avocent DSView Solution is a family of IT management devices and software that provides solutions in edge, enterprise and engineering lab environments. Built upon a secure common architecture the Avocent® DSView™ Solution seamlessly integrates and scales to create an open yet resilient IT management fabric.

Digital Infrastructure Solutions

Learn more about how our Digital Infrastructure Solutions can help right size your data center; from Enterprise to Edge.....

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IP KVM Switches, Desktop KVM and KM, Serial Consoles and Gateways, Digital Infrastructure Solutions

Embedded Management Systems

Avocent Core Insight (ACI) enables your engineers to build secure, scalable, leading-edge embedded management systems for any device. ACI is engineered for maximum control and flexibility of your design and implementation. Developers can choose to add advanced ACI application modules to an existing firmware stack...

Serial Consoles & Gateways

When management of IT equipment is needed, and IP connectivity isn’t an option, a serial console provides remote access for port configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. Let's build an intelligent IT management ecosystem, with innovative serial console servers, that allow you to securely manage in-band and out-of-band networks via serial port access.

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IP KVM Switches

Let's take the efficiency and performance of your critical facility one step further, by enabling improved local and remote management of your servers and power usage control, through future-proofed KVM over IP switches. Discover our digital high-performance KVM systems, built with you in mind, that provide seamless access and sharing capabilities......

LCD Local Rack Access Console

Local Rack Access (LRA) Console provides the simplicity, efficiency and ease of use to make it the ideal data center access point. When connected to a KVM switch, the LRA line enables easy access to multiple servers making software upgrades, troubleshooting, system monitoring, convenient, less time-consuming and protecting uptime......

Desktop KVM & KM

Achieve unmatched levels of business continuity and cost savings, by enhancing the productivity of your time-strapped IT personnel, through simplified usability. We're with you every step of the way in this endeavor, by helping you streamline access to essential business systems or networks with desktop KVM switches and holistic IT management solutions.

INTEGRATED SOLUTION

Vertiv SmartCloset

Vertiv SmartCloset is a complete solution curated by Vertiv experts to enable rapid and risk-free IT deployments at the Edge. The Vertiv SmartCloset brings together Vertiv VR Rack, Vertiv Liebert UPS, and Vertiv Geist rPDU in one easy-to-order product providing the infrastructure required to support mission critical business operations.

Vertiv SmartRow 2

The SmartRow is a complete Edge data center pre-Engineered by Vertiv for lightning-fast deployment. Each system includes rack enclosures, in-row cooling with complete containment, UPS battery backup, power distribution, and cable management. The SmartRow is designed to be room neutral and can be installed in less than 5 days.

Vertiv SmartCabinet ID

The Vertiv SmartCabinet ID is an all-in-one micro data center that has been designed specifically for demanding environments. The robust IP54 rated cabinet provides environmental protection from harsh applications where dust and humidity could severely impact system performance and equipment life-span. The pre-integrated cooling module delivers either 3.5 or 7.0kW of scalable cooling capacity while allowing for full rack U-space utilization for increased IT deployment.

RACKS and CONTAINMENT

Standardize your deployments around the world and bring them online faster with the Vertiv VR rack. The Vertiv VR supports a wide variety of equipment including servers, storage, switches, routers, PDUs, UPSs, console port servers and KVM switches. The Vertiv VR is delivered ready for high density environments to serve your mission critical needs — even as they evolve and change. This rack gives you the flexibility you need with easy installation.

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Vertiv DCE Optimized Rack Systems

The Vertiv DCE Rack System has been designed to meet the flexibility, ease of installation, and delivery requirements needed by today’s data centers. Choose from either the preconfigured rack selections or choose from our numerous factory installed accessories and configurations to customize your rack the way you need it, when you need it.....

OUTDOOR ENCLOSURES

The rise of IoT and its vast applications, combined with the performance brought to the table by the edge computing-enabled early 5G deployments have one thing in common: rising energy costs. And that is why you need your thermal management system to reach new levels of energy efficiency. And whether you're thinking of direct expansion cooling solutions, a free cooling system or an indirect evaporative cooling mechanism, Vertiv's outdoor packaged cooling systems are here for you.

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Liebert DSE Packaged Free-Cooling Solution, 400-500kW

Reduce costs and increase economization hours with the highly efficient Liebert DSE Packaged Free-Cooling Solution. The Liebert DSE is the world’s most widely deployed pumped refrigerant economization system for data centers, with over 8,500 installations.

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Liebert Direct Evaporative Freecooling Unit, 150-600+kW

The Liebert Direct Evaporative Freecooling Unit delivers the lowest capital and operating costs, with a mechanical PUE of less than 1.1, streamlined installation and the industry’s lowest peak power consumption.

Liebert DX Air Handler, 150-600+kW

The Liebert DX Air Handler delivers data center efficiency with the flexibility for modular build outs. Multiple configurations include outside air economization, evaporative condensing and evaporative cooling to reduce energy consumption. Liebert Direct Expansion Air Handler Unit........

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