Panduit Enables IBM to make its Enterprise Modular Data Centre Solution more Efficient and Sustainable

Panduit, a global leader in Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) based solutions, is partnering with IBM to bring large modular, plug and play data centres to market. Enterprise Modular Data Centres (EMDC) are large modular data centres designed in smaller, standardised modules with the capability to plug in additional capacity over time as needed, such as power and cooling. This approach enables clients to bring new, highly-scalable data centres online three-to-six months sooner than a custom-designed version. Panduit’s UPI-based solutions leverage an optimised physical infrastructure as the foundation to enable convergence across communication, computing, control, power and security systems. These end-to-end solutions drive operational and financial advantages across the enterprise, allowing businesses to improve reliability, reduce costs, heighten agility and support sustainability initiatives. Panduit shares IBM’s vision that data centres can be constructed in a flexible way with the ability to scale on-demand and significantly reduce initial capital and operating costs. By teaming with IBM on the EMDC initiative, Panduit is helping enterprises deploy sustainable technology infrastructures that meet evolving business requirements with a flexible and scalable on-demand data centre solution that defers up to 40 percent of the capital expense and 50 per cent of the operational expense until capacity is required. “Panduit and IBM share a similar vision to help organisations optimise their power, cooling, and space needs within the data centre environment,” said Vineeth Ram, Panduit VP of Global Strategic Marketing. “By supporting IBM’s family of data centre solutions, such as EMDC, with our own UPI-based solutions that optimise the physical infrastructure, together we can make that vision a reality.” “More than 60 per cent of CIOs around the world are expecting significant change brought by soaring data volumes, increasingly complex analyses and ever larger populations of users,” said Steven Sams, IBM VP of Global Site and Facilities Services. “With today’s announcements IBM and partners like Panduit demonstrate our ability to lead data centre innovation to meet changing requirements with a very flexible plug and play approach, allowing data centre capabilities to be added – and paid for – when and where they are needed.” Panduit has established long-term collaborative relationships with global industry leaders such as IBM to develop and integrate innovative, holistic solutions for its customers. The company continually invests in relationships and resources for solving its customers’ greatest business challenges. Customers and partners can learn more about Panduit’s data centre solutions at www.panduit.com/datacenter

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