Environmental monitoring system
Environmental monitoring refers to the monitoring of power and the environment, and the real-time monitoring and management of the data center’s operating status.
DCIM , short for Data Center Infrastructure Management, has evolved from traditional environmental monitoring systems . It was coined by the renowned consulting firm Gartner. Its management scope is more comprehensive, employing tools to monitor, manage, and control all major IT equipment and supporting infrastructure within the data center.
Fire protection system
Data center fire suppression systems are quite interesting. Because server rooms contain electronic equipment, in the event of a fire, you certainly can’t directly spray water, foam, or dust.
So what can we do? Extinguish the fire with gas .
After a fire occurs, the alarms of the fire and smoke sensors will sound. Then, the computer room area can release inert gases such as argon and nitrogen to deprive the flames of oxygen and extinguish the fire (it can be done in about tens of seconds).
Modular Data Center
In recent years, in order to deploy data centers more quickly and flexibly, manufacturers have introduced the concept of modular data centers.
Simply put, it involves integrating the data center’s structural system, power supply and distribution system, HVAC system, fire protection system, lighting system, and structured cabling, turning them into individual “building blocks.” Then, after transporting these “building blocks” to the site, they are simply hoisted and assembled to complete the construction and deployment.
Using this method, the construction cycle of large data centers has been reduced from 18-24 months to about 6 months, resulting in significant economic benefits.
III. Types of Data Center Services
Basic hosting services
This type of business is the “cornerstone” of data centers, providing customers with racks or entire cabinets to house their own servers, storage devices, network equipment, etc., while also providing services such as continuous power supply, constant temperature cooling, and physical security protection.
For example, Maidechuang Technology hosted the core database server of a cross-border e-commerce company in Chengdu to the Ya’an Chuanxi Big Data Data Center, avoiding the high costs of building its own data center (electricity, cooling, operation and maintenance) while enjoying a T3+ level data center environment.