APC Unveils 60kW High Density InfraStruXure™ Systems

American Power Conversion (APC) has unveiled new high density InfraStruXure™ systems that can scale up to 60kW per rack. According to APC, these are the first integrated systems on the market that reach this critical load point for a typical data center rack, row or room design.

Designed and fully tested for the latest in servers from the leading system makers, these systems provide UPS power, power distribution, and cooling in a standardized rack based architecture. The new systems also offer APC's InfraStruXure Manager management solution for monitoring critical functions and outputs along all points of the thermodynamic cycle, providing maximum peace of mind for data center managers and facilities managers alike.

APC's new high density InfraStruXure systems feature the company's recently-announced InRow cooling solutions that enable deployment of high density servers in quantities and concentrations that were not previously considered economically feasible. APC's InRow RC cooling unit can predictably deliver up to 60kW of cooling to equipment located in the row. The key design philosophy that enables such performance is the focus on heat removal at the source, rather than allowing heat to mix with ambient temperatures and driving inefficiencies as a result.

"The industry has learned that smothering heat through greater and greater cooling delivered in a ‘circle the wagons' approach not only is inefficient, it also causes humidity control issues that can introduce problems such as electrostatic discharge that might ultimately reduce availability of the data center," said Dwight Sperry, APC's vice president of Enterprise Systems and Business Networks. "For high density loads, this legacy approach simply cannot deliver the required cooling to keep servers running safely. Our approach is to deliver predictable cooling exactly when and where it is required, and scavenge heat wherever it is produced in order to prevent mixing."

"Our new InfraStruXure systems help companies respond quickly to business and IT trends to effectively deploy key applications and develop or restructure data centers and server rooms," added Sperry. "As critical applications such as high density become increasingly complex to deploy, these integrated systems offer a better approach to designing, building and operating successful IT environments."