Data Center (DC) is becoming one of the main points of the efforts to increase energy efficiency in IT and telecommunications. “Green” technology increases the cooling efficiency, reduce losses and allow the use of alternative energy sources. In turn, this leads to a rapid replacement of traditional technologies in the data center to new, with improved energy efficiency, as well as the development of new product niches, such as container, or as they are called mobile or modular data centers (MDC). The fact that the dimensions of mobile containers should allow their transport by road and rail. In addition, they must be strong enough to withstand the loading and unloading and delivery in a complete state. There must be a constructive element for operation and maintenance (air, cable entry, the passes of sufficient width, etc.). These requirements can be satisfied through the use of standard shipping containers (20 and 40 feet).
Generally speaking, the concept of containerized data center is very attractive. After all, this solution provides organizations with limited resources, to increase their computing capacity without building a new data center. All tested and debugged the IT data center equipment can be placed, for example, a standard container of ISO, which can only be installed in the right place and connect to the cooling system (water), electrical power and communication channels. However, according to IDC, the market of container data centers is still small. However, the market is growing rapidly. A key feature of its data centers became the third generation modular approach. The concept of novelty under the name of IT PAC (IT Pre-Assembled Component) involves small independent mobile containers that are going off-site data center and can be connected together to form a holistic data center.
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