An artist rendering of the Data Center Resources/Cannon Modular Data Center Solution.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data Center Resources (www.datacenterresources.com) announced on Friday it has partnered with Cannon Technologies (www.cannontech.co.uk) to introduce a fully integrated modular data center solution.
The partnership will see Cannon manufacture the physical building shell, while Data Center Resources provides all critical infrastructure including server cabinets, power distribution, cooling modules, chiller, back-up power, fire suppression and monitoring
Shipped flat-packed, the physical building shell can be assembled on any prepared space in less than a week.
The modular data center solution was initially designed for quick deployment data centers for military applications, as it creates a dedicated, secure environment for scalable power and cooling that is sized to load.
Infrastructure can be configured to accommodate loads ranging from 1 to 30kW per cabinet with either N+1 or 2N redundancy.
“We are very excited about this unique new product. Modular and containerized data centers have been gaining a lot of momentum and we have a unique, high-quality solution which will be very competitively priced compared other offerings on the market,” says Rick Berendes, product manager for Data Center Resources. “The initial response to this new product has been very strong; we have had interest from universities, local government, colocation and corporations. It is attractive to any organization needing a small to medium-size data center but does not currently have suitable space.”
The building shell includes heavy-duty grids of steel beams for the base, floor and ceiling, vertical steel supports that connect the grids together, and supports from base to floor that create an under floor plenum space to run piping for the cooling system.
Additionally, vertical supports from floor to ceiling double as the frames for the server cabinets.
The building has insulation between the steel exterior and interior walls, and features thermal and fire ratings.
At the center of the building there is a pod that contains servers and other IT hardware, which also includes a space between each cabinet for an 8″ wide 25 kW cooling module.
The pod also houses rack mount power distribution and a modular UPS system.
