Uses 'Legrand Data Center Solutions' in Heerlen (NL) Municipality Project
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CUSTOMERCASE Minkels-partner All IT Rooms uses ‘Legrand Data Center Solutions’ in Heerlen (NL) Municipality project The Dutch municipalities of Heerlen, Kerkrade, Landgraaf, Brunssum, Nuth, Voerendaal, Simpelveld and joint data centre solutions through the ‘Legrand Data Center Solutions’ teams, Onderbanken together form ‘Parkstad Limburg’. Within this partnership, the municipality of Heerlen plays this has a big advantage; one single a leading role in the field of ICT; all eight municipalities in Parkstad Limburg participate in the Heerlen point of contact, offering a complete solution. Recently, we worked together data centres. In addition to scale enlargement, 24/7 online availability of the site is also important to the on a project for the municipality of citizens. This places high demands on the data centre. Minkels partner All IT Rooms and Legrand Data Krimpenerwaard. This experience with Minkels and Legrand made us decide to Center Solutions were challenged to upgrade the server space of the municipality of Heerlen! utilise this combination again during the project for the municipality of Heerlen. For the municipality of Heerlen we chose the Keor UPS system. We used the three- IMPROVING POWER SUPPLY phase UPS with 60 kVA and five minutes he municipality of Heerlen had the of autonomy time. This means that the desire to improve the power supply battery provides five minutes of backup Tof the city hall’s server space. time. This is enough because there is Ronald Kok, Director of All IT Rooms: also an aggregate in Heerlen. Otherwise, “The municipality of Heerlen has been a a longer autonomy time would have been customer of All IT Rooms for a number necessary.” Ronald Kok, Director of years. They asked us to think about of All IT Rooms a better redundancy, bearing in mind SUSTAINABLE AND MANAGEABLE that all eight municipalities in Parkstad The municipality had one special Limburg are participating in the Heerlen demand: the installation had to be data centres.” additional cabinet for the batteries, plus own UPS, resulting in a 2N solution. With sustainable. “The Legrand UPS has a UPS cabling for batteries. This all takes this solution, we have adapted the data high efficiency of 96%. To ensure this, PRICE-QUALITY VERSUS SPACE up space that wasn’t actually there”, said centre to the wishes of the municipality; the consumption of the systems had to All IT Rooms assessed a number of Kok. we realised an increased availability be measurable. This was a customer- UPS systems from different suppliers. and a reduced chance of errors. This specific demand and therefore required “After a careful selection, we chose the LIVE ICT RENEWAL redundancy is necessary in case of customisation: an external kilowatt UPS systems of ‘Legrand Data Center In the old situation a single power malfunction or maintenance work. Then hour meter had to be installed. The Solutions’ because of the good value for supply was used. “Thus a single point the other feed will take over.” municipality has been able to make huge money. In addition, there was little room of failure, which gives a higher risk of savings: from a decentralised solution for a UPS system in the server space. failure and reduces reliability. In a live LEGRAND DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS with about 60 small UPSes to a central The Legrand UPS has batteries that are and up-and-running ICT environment, As a system integrator, All IT Rooms solution with one large UPS for each placed internally in the cabinet. Other we first built feed B and switched over works with a few brands. “Minkels has energy path. Furthermore, an increase systems have batteries placed externally. to this feed. After that, we replaced been a reliable partner for years and in manageability and space has been As a result, Legrand’s footprint is smaller. feed A and redesigned it. In the new that led to our link to Legrand. Now realised, against a much lower energy With other UPSes, we would also need an situation, both energy paths have their that Minkels and Legrand offer their consumption”, Kok concludes. 24 25.