Rick Puskar, Head of Marketing for Schneider Electric's IT Division presents at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona November 8th, 2017. In this presentation Rick discusses where the next 80% improvement in data center performance will come from with a focus on the speed, availability and reliability of data. Learn how a cloud-based data center infrastructure management as a service architecture like Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure IT can drive such aggressive goals around data center performance.

1. Where will the next 80% improvement in data center performance come from?
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Rick Puskar
Chief Marketing Officer, Head of Marketing
IT Division

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2006 was a pivotal year for the data center industry

4. Fast forward to today

5. Data Center Science Center models show 80% reduction in
losses over 10 years
Total Annual Energy
Savings = $293,145

6. What will improve the
performance of data centers by
80% over the next 10 years?
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7. Computing will be an ecosystem of data centers in the cloud
and at the edge
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Massive compute and storage
CENTRALIZED CLOUD
Large compute and storage
located closer to the user
REGIONAL EDGE
Micro data centers with compute and
storage near to where data is consumed
LOCAL EDGE

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It’s important to note, our expectations of performance far
exceed PUE metrics
Enterprise use cases:
Lessons learned in
managing hybrid IT
capacity
“If I had my dream we would have
the visibility to predict failures
before they occur”
Director, infrastructure and Chief Information Security
US. Retailer

9. While there are many great technologies that will bring performance
improvement, the next step function will be enabled by software
4 Software is the key enabler
Open, integrated, cloud first, mobile first
Built for data analytics
1. Ensuring best practice across this hybrid
environment
Micro data centers
Free-standing pod frames
Prefab data centers
3. Data center impact on the grid
Servers becoming more dynamic
Peak shaving
Software defined power
Renewables with energy storage
2. Cooling strategies
Air economization
Liquid cooling

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Introducing EcoStruxure IT, our cloud-based data center
infrastructure management architecture

11. The first step in performance improvement is to gain visibility
across critical data center domains
Apps, Analytics & Services
across power, building and IT
domains provide data-driven
insights to optimize data center
resiliency and performance
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12. Next, collect data across all of your facilities and staff
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13. Benchmark performance against your own system or those
across the industry
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EcoStruxure IT in Action: Retailer
2,300 store locations with 37 MW of power across sites
IT
Result:
• Improved store stability 88%
• Decreased average active UPS
faults from 70 to 10
•5,600+ hours of staff hours
could be allocated back to
customer-facing selling time.
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EcoStruxure IT helps customers optimize infrastructure
performance and mitigate risk
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Visibility
Global visibility across the hybrid
ecosystem – from anywhere – including
one-tap access from your smartphone
Insights
Data-driven recommendations to
optimize performance and improve
availability
Openness
Collects data regardless of vendor and
provides developer access through our
platform
Simplicity
Fast and easy to deploy, operate, and
scale, plus provides a convenient
subscription model for any size of
environment
Risk mitigation
Trend analysis, “health”
benchmarking and preventative
maintenance to reduce incidents
before they occur
Remote services
Service bureau quickly troubleshoots or
dispatches technicians on the basis of
real-time data, reducing mean time to
repair
Stop by booth #909 to learn more