OEM business is experiencing a real boom. “The demand for IT racks is rocketing,” says Thomas Schreiner, a Key Account Manager at Rittal. “Hyperscalers are seizing the opportunity to expand their market position and are safeguarding infrastructure projects through the global procurement of IT products.” Racks are being fully configured by integrators before being “slotted into” data centres as finished products. The primary aim is operational speed. System integrators are supplying turnkey solutions that are tailored precisely to the needs of hyperscalers. Rittal scores highly in this area for two reasons. The first is that the company supports mechanical standardisation at rack level.

“We are the leading development partner and rack manufacturer in this area for the big OEMs,” points out Schreiner. The second is that Rittal has a global footprint with international production facilities and a worldwide logistics network. Martin Kipping, Head of the Global Datacenter Project at Rittal, explains: “On its own, manufacturing racks isn’t enough these days. Hyperscalers want to make sure worldwide demands are met. They expect the right kind of logistics and solutions that are available globally.” Corona has increasingly brought these requirements to light.

RIMATRIX NEXT GENERATION

Schreiner cites RiMatrix Next Generation as the perfect example of the latest newcomers among the globally available solutions: “RiMatrix Next Generation builds on the principle of an open system platform. Thanks to its modularity and flexibility, it creates the basis for an IT infrastructure that can be configured to suit specific regional and international requirements.” Racks, power distribution, cooling, monitoring and security are all perfectly coordinated. It is also the first IT platform to support the use of OCP direct current technology in standard alternating current environments.

8.000 RACKS FOR CHINDATA

Rittal is helping data centre operators in China design new data centres and build them quickly. These include the Chinese cloud and data centre provider Chindata, which has set up a new data centre in Guanting. The data centre covers an area of more than 130,000 square metres and has an IT capacity of up to 16 megawatts, making it one of China’s largest data centres. Rittal installed a modified rack system with more than 52 height units in the new hyperscale data centre.
Hot aisle containment with indirect, adiabatic cooling is being used to cool the IT systems so as to optimise energy efficiency. Rittal has fitted more than 8,000 racks and over 250 hot aisle containment units in the data centre.

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  RIMATRIX NEXT GENERATION: FÜR EINE SCHNELLE IT

  IT managers realise they will constantly be faced with new, as-yet unknown challenges in the future. They must be able to respond faster than ever and create data centres that offer a high level of flexibility for the future.

  This is why Rittal has developed the new RiMatrix Next Generation IT infrastructure platform. “During the development process, we thought ahead and considered the ability to adapt to diverse and constantly evolving requirements,” says Uwe Scharf, Managing Director Business Units and Marketing at Rittal. The result is an open platform system that is unique in the world and ideal for establishing data centres of all performance classes flexibly, reliably and fast, not to mention comprehensive consulting and services throughout the entire IT life cycle.