Next Generation Connected Infastructure
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Legrand's connected infrastructure is a comprehensive approach aimed at enhancing data center efficiency through performance, reliability, space optimization, customer experience, and sustainability. It offers real-world solutions to meet increasing demands while minimizing capital investments, and focuses on improving data management and deployment processes. This approach supports crucial IT initiatives and aligns with modern regulatory and environmental standards.
Next Generation Connected Infastructure
- 1. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA Next Generation Connected Infrastructure
- 2. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA What is Connected Infrastructure Why It Matters The 5 Key Aspects of Connected Infrastructure Contents 2CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 3. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA What Is Connected Infrastructure? CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 4. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA • A new approach to improve data center efficiency and increase effectiveness • Benefits beyond the older focus on power and cooling • A more holistic approach to Data Center design • Integrates five key elements of the data center • Real world solutions to real world problems The Connected Infrastructure Approach CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 5. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA Connected Infrastructure combines our solutions, industry leading customer advocacy, design and support teams, for a comprehensive approach to your network. Through Connected Infrastructure, we deliver maximum performance, time saving, space optimization, superior customer experience and sustainability by design, to address your challenges, today and tomorrow. 5CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 6. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA 6CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION Why Connected Infrastructure Matters!
- 7. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA • We must increase data center efficiency to meet the demand of “do more with less” • We need new places in the data center where larger savings are possible • We need to increase the capabilities of the data center without massive capital investment • We must go beyond the gains from a narrow focus on power and cooling infrastructure in the data center The Benefits from Connected Infrastructure & Why It Matters! CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 8. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA 5 Aspects of Connected Infrastructure CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION8
- 9. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA • Focus on performance as workloads increase dramatically • Reliability is a critical component of performance and improved cable management increases availability • This creates a new focus on the performance of the datacenter network • Insertion loss now loom large • Poor network cable management and implementations cause bottlenecks Performance CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 10. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA • Save staff time with faster deployment of moves/adds/ changes with better cabling solutions • Research show 90% of active devices in the data center will be changed in a 5-10 year period – Minimize this impact with racks/cabinets flexible enough to accommodate new equipment • Simplify the installation and cabling of new devices to save staff resources • Connected Infrastructure speeds deployment of new solutions and data center projects Time 10CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 11. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA • Gartner’s new Infinite data center initiative is an important approach for maximizing the investment by growing vertically • Connected Infrastructure provides solutions for higher capacity within the existing “footprint” • Increase port and cable density options to free up rack units and support more active devices • Provide a range of more flexible and scalable options for infrastructure to maximize current data center space Space 11CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 12. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA • Connected Infrastructure delivers Legrand’s engineering expertise as needed for the individual customer’s specific project • Provide expertise and project guides to collaboratively develop the project design and specifications • Provide a single point of contact to support a local to global relationship with the customer Customer Experience 12CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 13. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA • Connected Infrastructure helps you meet regulatory compliance demands with products designed for today’s statutes • Provide an entire range of state of the art energy efficient solutions for the data center • Products that are Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliant • Legrand is a leader and committed to environmental stewardship, resulting in products that actually contribute LEED points and reduce environmental impact Sustainability 13CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 14. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA Connected Infrastructure Supports Key IT Initiatives • Improving density and overall data center throughput provides a better environment for highly virtualized or cloud computing projects • Optimizing data center space and rack unit availability provides the space necessary to support rapidly expanding infrastructure to support new mobile and end user driven applications • Offering solutions that align with Gartner’s Infinite Data Center recommendation to maximize data center space 14CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
- 15. LEGRAND, NORTH AMERICA Connected Infrastructure is an approach from Legrand that provides the next level of efficiency and effectiveness for data centers and the staff who run them. The five aspects of Connected Infrastructure work synergistically and have a more holistic view of the data center than power and cooling solutions alone. 15CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY INFORMATION