From Assessment to Design of your DATACENTER infrastructure

1. Panduit Data Center Advisory Services
Ready for Today.
Optimized for the Future.

2. As an IT professional charged with maintaining efficient Data Center operations to
achieve business objectives, poor integration between physical and logical layer
elements can generate unacceptable business risk in the form of unsatisfactory
network performance and availability, and increased operating costs. A physical
infrastructure design optimized for parameters that affect network performance
and availability enables you to mitigate risk and improve network performance.
Panduit Data Center Advisory Services harnesses our physical infrastructure
expertise to help you audit, assess, design, and deploy a cost-effective physical
Panduit’s Unified Physical infrastructure that supports today’s business challenges with the flexibility to meet
Infrastructure (UPI): the rapidly changing needs of tomorrow.
a Guiding Vision
A unified approach to physical and logical
systems architecture is imperative for
solutions to fully address the need for
Our Methodology
availability, agility, integration, and security. The Panduit Unified Physical InfrastructureSM (UPI) approach considers the
Panduit has developed the industry’s most physical infrastructure as a distinct, absolute foundation that integrates critical
comprehensive and holistic approach systems and supporting platforms. By integrating the physical and logical
to a Unified Physical Infrastructure and can infrastructures, this approach minimizes risk, increases flexibility, and delivers
help enterprises align, converge, and
optimize critical systems – communication, maximum performance throughout your data center.
computing, control, power, and security – to
build a smarter, unified business foundation. As a result, a sophisticated, scalable, integrated and well-planned physical
infrastructure will allow quick deployment of technologies that enable
Mitigate Risk – Efficient physical infrastructure
management enables seamless integration to reduce consolidation, virtualization, and automation. Whether it’s more effective data
risks that can occur throughout core systems. center cooling techniques, improved energy efficiency, High Speed Data
Transport (HSDT), or smart cabinets, a superior physical infrastructure is
Lower Cost – Panduit physical infrastructure
solutions drive financial advantages to reduce key to improved IT infrastructure performance and business success.
energy and occupancy costs, and help secure
competitive advantage.
Panduit is well versed in the benefits and challenges of implementing new
Increase Agility – A high level of integration within technologies, maximizing performance, and optimizing data centers. Our
the physical infrastructure enables flexibility and professionals can help you identify and mitigate potential risks that exist with
improved business agility.
respect to the physical infrastructure for an optimized, high-performing network.
Enhance Sustainability – UPI-based solution
offerings enable organizations to meet sustainability
goals by driving resource and energy efficiencies
across the physical infrastructure.
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3. UPI-Based Technical Reference Architecture Capabilities
Panduit Advisory Services offerings begin with a deep understanding of the logical
network design and the customer’s overall infrastructure objectives. The next step is
to develop a physical reference architecture which aligns with the logical infrastructure
and includes a set of tested and validated design and implementation best practices.
This becomes the framework for optimizing your data center’s physical infrastructure
design, seamlessly merging the physical systems – power, cooling, racking, pathways,
cabling, bonding, identification – with the IT equipment they support – servers,
switches, storage, and monitoring.
Our reference architecture approach consists of methodology, recommendations,
documented reference designs, and best practices developed against tested and
validated architectures. These architectures allow for optimizing around the following
parameters – power, cooling, speed, space and capacity utilization, and performance.
We leverage our UPI foundation and reference architecture methodology to intelligently
link physical infrastructure systems to logical architectures, enabling consistent and
optimized deployments of sustainable IT infrastructures.
Strategic Technology Alliance Partners
Panduit collaborates with leading technology providers to optimize emerging
technologies for our clients. These partnerships ensure the rapid, correct, and secure
deployment of a truly Unified Physical Infrastructure ready to handle the latest
technologies, applications, and systems.
Our integrated, pre-tested solutions developed in conjunction with our industry-leading
strategic alliance partners increases application availability, improves SLA response
quality, and reduces time to implement solutions.
Panduit Business Partner Network
Your data center needs are unique. As a physical infrastructure expert, Panduit
works with key business partners to deliver results that meet your business goals.
Through Panduit’s Advisory Services, we are able to assemble the right team
including subject-matter experts (SMEs) and partners and the appropriate solutions
and products to ensure that the logical architecture and physical infrastructure work
together to deliver a state-of-the-art, scalable data center.
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4. Improving Performance
We have helped Does your data center keep you up at night?
clients achieve: Managing a sub-par physical infrastructure can jeopardize the operation of your
entire network, especially if the physical layer was designed and deployed in an
• 250% faster line speed by deploying High
Speed Data Transport (HSDT) systems ad hoc manner. Panduit can help you improve your network performance by
understanding the mission critical requirements of your data center operations
• 75% space savings in horizontal cabling to generate a physical infrastructure design that will optimize performance.
by using a single 10GbE network versus
multiple 1 GbE networks
Reducing Operating Costs
We have helped Do you have trouble convincing leadership of the
clients achieve: benefits of data center investments?
• 36% annual savings in CRAC
Most organizations spend on average 75% of their IT budget on operating costs.
operating expenses When it comes to making IT investments, the remaining 25% of a budget is less
than optimal.
• 7% increase in usable RU space with
no added cabinet cost
As a trusted partner, we will equip you with the intelligence to make smarter,
well-informed business decisions that will reduce your operating costs. Panduit
can help you re-allocate and better utilize your budget by:
• Maximizing efficiencies by assessing your power and cooling
systems, data center layout, and physical infrastructure
arrangement practices
• Making recommendation on space consolidation and utilization
• Providing real-time management solutions, such as our
Physical Infrastructure Management™ (PIM™) system
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5. Increasing Flexibility
and Responsiveness We have helped
Do you find yourself cutting back on ambitious clients achieve:
business plans due to limited IT resources? • 70% additional growth in thermal load
with a new data center layout, avoiding
We understand that with competing resource demands, limited budget, and new cooling system capital expenditure
ever-changing technologies, you need to make each IT investment count – to
support not only the business of today, but also the unknown ones in the future. • 80% potential growth in IT thermal load
with two more CRAC units while maintaining
N+1 level redundancy
Whether it is moving to a new platform such as Cloud computing, undertaking
deployment of virtualization, or integrating automation controls into your data
center, we arm you with the intelligence to guide your business leadership in the
successful completion of new initiatives that will produce favorable results.
We will stand alongside you, providing additional insight and technical expertise
as your business demands evolve.
Improving Sustainability
Are you looking for ways to improve We have helped
energy efficiency? clients achieve:
Increasingly, business is being asked by clients, partners, regulatory agencies • 33% reduction in overall CRAC unit
and employees what measures are being taken to lessen their impact on the annual energy usage, resulting in
environment. The assumption that recycling outdated hardware is as about as 51,500 kw/hr saved
environmentally friendly as an IT department can get no longer holds true.
Panduit can help you achieve your corporate social responsibility goals by
identifying ways to reduce space, decrease energy consumption and minimize
reactive maintenance.
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6. Better Information;
Stronger Return on Investment
As you look to implement virtualization, consolidation, and automation initiatives,
Panduit brings solutions to better leverage the value of these technologies.
Physical Infrastructure Virtualization Offering
Panduit will work with you to ensure your enterprise infrastructure is virtualization
ready. We will analyze your needs and requirements to create a comprehensive
map that aligns the physical infrastructure to your specific logical architecture.
This process of mapping and alignment positions your enterprise for successful
deployment of virtualization and consolidation initiatives.
This offering includes:
• A complete gap analysis and Layer 1 physical infrastructure
technology review (power, cooling, cabinet space planning,
pathways, cabling systems, bonding, ID) that collects device,
system, and administrative data across the network for
inclusion in a configured management database
• Development of an actionable deployment strategy that
incorporates a customized physical infrastructure roadmap
that visually documents the relationships between key
physical and logical layer elements, including switches,
servers, power, thermal management, racks/cabinets,
cabling media, and cable management
• Delivery of a scalable, integrated, high-performing physical
infrastructure design that considers your top challenges,
including performance, footprint optimization, thermal
management, and security
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7. Panduit Physical Infrastructure Consolidation Offering
If you are considering consolidating your data center facilities, Panduit will work with you to complete a
comprehensive current state assessment of your entire data center operations. Pre-consolidation assessments
are valuable planning tools that can identify systems performing optimally, while revealing gaps that could lead
to network failures and downtime.
This offering includes:
• A comprehensive physical infrastructure evaluation covering all major systems, including
servers, storage, switching, and related infrastructure, which provides a roadmap for
eliminating redundant systems and applications
• An inclusive review of the network design to optimize the use of current resources and ensure all
necessary physical infrastructure elements are incorporated for you to deliver on mission-critical
business requirements
• Based on all assessment results, Panduit creates an Optimized Physical Infrastructure Design
for your unique network, IT, or data center challenges. This design enables you to make the
most efficient use of the available power and cooling, optimizing overall space layout and
capacity utilization, and ensuring that performance and transport speed expectations are met
Having a complete design before consolidation begins not only simplifies deployment, but also reduces potential
installation errors that could hinder performance weeks, months, or years into the future.
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8. Physical Infrastructure Manager™ (PIM™) Software Platform Automation Offering
Panduit’s Physical Infrastructure Manager (PIM™ ) Software works with PanView iQ™ (PViQ™ ) System Hardware to
extend real-time intelligence through the network, providing visibility of connectivity within the network’s physical and
logical layers.
PIM™ Software provides continuous monitoring and visibility into connectivity, power usage and environmental changes
and automated asset tracking to enhance system reliability, security, and capacity management. PIM™ Software
integrates with IBM Tivoli, Microsoft SCOM and other network management systems.
By automating data center management your IT organization can deliver cost-efficiency, quality and compliance in the
most complex environments. Panduit can assist you at all stages – initial analysis and planning, throughout the design
phase and actual deployment, or post-go-live automation upgrades – to help you plan, design, and implement an
effective automation strategy that is best suited for your enterprise.
Automation Assessment – Panduit will work with you to establish pre-automation metrics that can be used to justify
value and benefits of physical infrastructure automation initiatives. This is accomplished through:
• A comprehensive Infrastructure review that captures current-state performance metrics of manual
operations and processes for use as benchmarks
• A Gap Analysis Review that evaluates current state of the infrastructure and its ability to support
automation technologies
• A Panduit-hosted Proof of Technology workshop to demonstrate the value that our PIM™ Software
Platform will deliver to your enterprise
Solution Deployment – Panduit will work with you to ensure quick and problem-free deployment based on your
specific infrastructure design, project goals, and installation timeline. This offering enables you to more quickly achieve
automation deployment objectives and realize full benefit on your software investments. This service includes:
• Installation, Configuration, and Testing to ensure successful software adoption
• Accelerated time-to-delivery by leveraging Panduit expert resources
Maintenance and Upgrades – After deployment, Panduit is available for periodic reviews and policy audits to ensure
that you are receiving the full benefit of a UPI-based automation solution, from software performance and personnel
training to project management assistance. As your needs grow and your data center evolves to meet new business
requirements, the Panduit team will work alongside you to guarantee fast and efficient integration of new PIM™
Software Platform features and capabilities on your data center automation platform.
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9. Proven Experience.
Proven Results.
Today’s business faces a changing landscape that requires the data center to
move beyond a support role to a strategic one that supports operational efficiencies,
business growth, and innovation. Without an optimized physical infrastructure, you do
not capture the full value from your IT investments.
Panduit Advisory Services can help your company take those steps to optimize
the physical infrastructure for your data center. We apply proven methodologies,
best practices, and collaborate with leading-edge technology companies to:
• Effectively manage risk to your physical infrastructure layer by
eliminating the complexities associated with convergence,
integration, and system interdependencies
• Mitigate problems in physical infrastructure systems and help
reduce infrastructure downtime and failure by providing total
solutions for availability and reliability, integration, and safety
and security
• Reduce costs of ownership by improved scalability and better
service management
• Support today’s business needs while priming your physical
infrastructure for the demands of tomorrow
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10. Real-World Solutions to Ensure
the Success of Our Customers
Panduit is a world-class service advisor and developer of leading-edge
solutions that help clients optimize their physical infrastructure through
simplification, agility, and operational efficiency.
Innovative Technology Leadership
Panduit is an industry leader in developing innovative technology solutions
that meet the rapidly evolving needs of our customers around the world.
Our commitment to continued leadership is supported by significant ongoing
investment, dedicated manufacturing facilities, strategic technology alliances,
and collaborative R&D with other industry leaders.
Global Business & Commitment Optimize your data center
Panduit’s ongoing commitment to excellence and our technology alliances with
physical infrastructure.
key industry leaders such as Cisco Systems, EMC, Emerson, IBM, etc., enables
our highly skilled and knowledgeable global sales, systems engineering, and Call or visit us online,
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Worldwide Alliances
Panduit has established long-term strategic alliances with top global industry
leaders such as Cisco Systems, EMC, IBM, Liebert, and Rockwell Automation
to develop and integrate innovative, holistic solutions for our customers. We
continually invest in relationships and resources for solving our customers’
greatest business challenges.
Eco-Sustainability & Global Citizenship
With a long-standing commitment to environmental excellence, Panduit
continually develops and implements solutions designed to protect, replenish,
and restore the world in which we live and operate. This commitment is
demonstrated by Panduit’s LEED-certified new world headquarters and
future sustainable building plans using its own revolutionary Unified Physical
Infrastructure SM vision to enable convergence of critical systems to
drive energy efficiency.
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