What’s at the center of our data center physical infrastructure? Your business


Microsoft’s Schneider Electric data center is Business-wise, Future-driven.™ Perhaps no company knows better than Microsoft®


Why Schneider Electric data centers? how flexible and agile data centers


need to be to accommodate today’s fast-paced business and technology changes. To ensure that its Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Paris could adapt quickly to its ongoing business requirements, Microsoft turned to Schneider Electric™


for the industry’s


only integrated data center physical infrastructure and its applied expertise from building to rack. This end-to-end layer, which spans from building to room to row to rack, enables Microsoft to tap its data center as an integral business asset instead of just a cost center.


As Frédéric Aatz, data center manager, MTC, points out, “The agility of the Schneider Electric data center allows a quick adaptation to the ever-changing IT requirements. It also can adapt easily to dynamic business needs and strategies. This capability is key in an IT environment that is transitioning to cloud computing right now.”


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ways for your data center to be business-wise, future-driven


Bridges facilities and IT via an integrated data center physical iinfrastructure to maximize efficiency and availability


Performs at the highest level with best-of-breed components from a single company—components that are designed to work together as a system, therefore ensuring fast and easy deployment to keep pace with what your business needs


Maximizes energy efficiency through highly efficient components, advanced energy management capabilities, andright-sized power and cooling


Handles high densities within a small footprint through industry leading precision cooling advancements, scalable three-phase power, HD ready rack enclosures, and “snap in” modular three-phase power distribution units


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Has access to a global supply chain and lifecycle services (from design to maintenance) from a single company to ensure prompt attention to preventative maintenance and servicing


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Aligns quickly to business needs and strategic business changes via faster deployment made possible by easy to use design tools, easy installation, and modular components


Enables a private cloud to be easily designed and deployed within the existing infrastructure, with out-of-the-box integrated management that seamlessly works with your existing data center infrastructure


Adapts quickly to ever changing business requirements—today and in the future—thanks to a data center physical infrastructure that is inherently flexible, agile, and scalable


Optimizes availability and streamlines management by using end-to-end software with a comprehensive view to any vendor’s equipment within the context of the inte- grated data center physical infrastructure


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Reduces both CapEx and OpEx costs through streamlined and efficient design, deployment, operations, and maintenance


Only Schneider Electric data center physical infrastructure enables companies to adapt data centers at the speed of business to meet ever-changing business needs—now and in the future. Our integrated system, with best-of-breed components from a single company, makes your data center an integral part of your business.


A $279 value!


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> Reduced total data center life cycle cost up to 13%


> Data center physical infrastructure cost savings of 30% over 10 years


> Optimized availability to 99.999%


> Out-of-the-box, self discovery, and confi guration via integrated software


> Reduced design and deployment time from months to just weeks


> Connectivity to Microsoft SCOM (System Center Operation Manager) via


Struxureware for Data Centers ProPack


> Broad expertise, industry relationships, thought leadership, and life cycle services


from a single company


“ The agility of the Schneider Electric data center allows a quick adaptation to the ever-changing IT requirements. It also can adapt easily to dynamic business needs and strategies.”


Frédéric Aatz, Microsoft Technology Center Director (MTC Director)


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