VODAFONE
Paul Greenley, Senior Principal Manager DC Infrastructure & Facilities, Vodafone Group Data Centres
For Vodafone, the solution is more straightforward. The organisation already boasts a broad range of secure cloud and hosting options, connected to an awardwinning global network. As a result, it is well-positioned to make integration between legacy infrastructure and new hybrid environments simpler within the data centre. Additionally, the company decided to adopt on-prem cloud solutions to ease its network migration.
“ The challenge is turning a legacy data centre into a new data centre,” he says. We trialled a solution in Italy in 2016 because we knew these high-end power cooling requirements would come.”
In 2016, Vodafone started working to implement a proof-of-concept solution for hot aisle containment, whilst also delivering the company’ s cloud solution. Now, the technology giant is helping Vodafone to deploy 10 of its hot aisle containment pods across Europe for an on-premises cloud solution.
A trailblazing solution, these pod solutions work by extracting hot air from the containment using in-row coolers.
“ The pods were built in just five months, which is a record-breaking time,” Paul says.“ Nobody had seen this type of hot aisle containment before – even today I have to explain to people how it works, because they don’ t understand how you could have heat inside a contained unit and then it comes out into the room cold. If you put your
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