France gets Uptime-certified Tier IV Colo Data Centre
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FRANCE GETS UPTIME-CERTIFIED TIER IV COLO DATA CENTRE
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HPE, Future Facilities and New Generation partner to provide Thésée’s innovative colocation DCMS system
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hésée DataCenter, a 100% French colocation hosting services provider –from a few bays to a complete building – has embarked on a colocation project like no other with the launch of their Uptime-certified Tier IV data centre. Located in Aubergenville, 25 minutes from Paris, Thésée is independent and neutral towards telecom operators and cloud providers, giving French-owned organisations the sovereignty they seek from a data centre. Eventually comprising six data centre buildings, each housing two identical data halls of 534 square metres, the facility is aimed at mixed-density from legacy to HPC server hosting, but in an energy-efficient manner. Each data centre hall benefits from its own 6Sigma Digital Twin from Future Facilities to ensure that capacity is managed efficiently and that it is always working at optimal efficiency from a power and cooling standpoint. Thésée has worked together with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Future Facilities and New Generation to offer a world-first experience to its end customers with complete transparency on what is occurring in the customer’s data centre space. This is groundbreaking in terms of colocation customer experience. The secret to this customer experience comes from an end-to-end integrated Data Centre Management System (DCMS) designed futurefacilities.com
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WHY DID THÉSÉE IMPLEMENT A DIGITAL TWIN?
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• Offer clients a rich, innovative customer experience – an essential tool in the communication between the data centre and its customers • Allow clients access to a 3D vision of their IT equipment and operating conditions – a home away from home data centre experience • Provide complete transparency to customers in real-time on performance and service level indicators • Allow customers to develop precise knowledge of the evolutionary capacity of their infrastructures and plan future installations risk-free • Help Thésée better optimise the filling of the data centre and use full capacity - essential to the financial success of the data centre
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by HPE, integrating solutions from Future Facilities and New Generation with all of the information accessed via a single web portal. Thésée will offer the end customer the opportunity to manage their own data centre space via a web portal with access to all alarms and performance metrics, as well as the ability to interact with a virtual replica of their 3D space and have access to CFD simulation to assess IT deployment options. The 6Sigma Digital Twin is the only CFD tool
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CHRISTOPHE BOUNIOL TITLE: PRESIDENT Christophe Bouniol, president of the company, has a great management experience associated with a commercial experience, based on more than 20 years in sales and leadership in Europe, as well as his expertise in team management, rigor and commitment to quality services for customers acquired in the management of subsidiaries of U.S. companies, allow to set a course for the young company that is Thésée DataCenter.
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that allows data centres to optimise the design, improvement and operational planning of data centres. The 6SigmaDCX product suite, the industry's leading data centre CFD tool, is built for both data centre design and operations. Its 3D representation of the physical data centre - combined with a cutting-edge CFD (computational fluid dynamics) solver - lets data centre providers safely simulate the impact of change on a data centre’s resilience, physical capacity and cooling efficiency.
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TITLE: PRODUCT MANAGER Dave King has over a decade of experience in the data centre industry. Most of that time has been spent either consulting on design and troubleshooting projects around the world or training people in the application of engineering simulation for the design and operational planning of data centres. His accumulated global experience has resulted in the publication of numerous papers and being asked to share this knowledge at many leading international conferences. Now a Product Manager at Future Facilities, Dave is using that experience to drive the development of the industry leading data centre simulation product suite, 6SigmaDCX and the 6Sigma Digital Twin.
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“ This integration facilitates the dayto-day management of the data centre operations on the customer-front and allows users to have an open and transparent dialogue with their providers for the first time ever” GILLES CIEZA
CEO AND FOUNDER NEW GENERATION
The 6Sigma Digital Twin has been used throughout the data centre design phase to validate Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s design, understand rack density limits, and simulate failure scenarios. A digital twin is essentially a 3D representation of the entire data centre and includes all its characteristics – from physical dimensions to energy consumption, giving customers a real-time, cost-effective view. Speaking further about the 6Sigma Digital Twin and its capabilities, Dave King,
Product Manager of the 6SigmaDCX product suite at Future Facilities, says, “The 6Sigma Digital Twin will be used extensively by both Thésée and its customers, in the day-today operations of the data centre, allowing them to see a 3D virtual replica of their realtime data centre space. Customers will use insight from dashboards, reporting, and CFD simulation to make informed decisions on IT upgrades and capacity planning.” In addition to offering digital access, the digital twin also behaves as a predictive tool with the use of CFD simulation inputs, helping customers gather insights on the data centre’s thermal environment and taking necessary measures to increase efficiency. King, who has been working with Future Facilities for the last 14 years, understands the need for this technology, futurefacilities.com
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“ Thésée is a key partner for us in France to develop our service strategy, and we will go to market together in order to commercialise the software for our own customers” PASCAL LECOQ
WORLDWIDE DIRECTOR OF DATA CENTRE TECHNOLOGY HPE
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adding that simulation has helped organisations make better decisions and adapting to a multi-tenant environment has brought much-needed flexibility to the customers who use these data centres. Future Facilities has been working closely with their French reseller Wattdesign to build the digital twin model that grants almost full autonomy to the end-users of the Thésée data centre. Originally designed by HPE, Future Facilities were able to connect with Thésée on the implementation of the digital twin as a result of this collaboration. Future Facilities worked closely with partners
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PASCAL LECOQ TITLE: DIRECTOR Director at HPE Pointnext, in charge of Worldwide Datacenter Technology Services Practice, "I focus on Advisory, Professional and Operations Consulting Services that include Data Center transformation and consolidation programs, featuring strategic advisory consulting from Edge to Cloud, concept and detailed design, implementation and commissioning services, Data Center assessments and capacity planning, operations consulting, as well as solution offerings as Modular Data Centers from Micro DC’s to POD’s (Data Centers in containers), Datacenter Management Services, Datacenter as a Service."
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like Wattdesign, HPE and New Generation to ensure that Thésée’s colocation centre was equipped with the latest product suite, which meant building some new integration models and adapting the software to cater for a multi-tenant environment. Thésée co-founder Christophe Bouniol, who has years of experience working in the IT space, understands the need for customer sovereignty and transparency, and so offering a French-owned data centre to its end users and implementing Future Facilities’ 6Sigma Digital Twin didn’t require a second thought. Bouniol says that high
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TITLE: CEO "NewGen is a high tech company specializing in deep tech and integration of complex solution s for B to B clients. We develop innovative solutions for DC Operators aiming at creating value through the adoption of our DC Management System technologies (DCMS) NUVEA PaaS. Our platform provides easy overall integrated management of DC operations, dramatic cost reduction as well as overall optimization of DC management. NUVEA PaaS enables DC operators to quickly build up a service stack and generate additional revenues through its market place."
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USE OF CFD SIMULATION IN DESIGN • Finetune the data centre design and find out the design limits • Simulate failing AHUs in high-density environments: N+2, N+1 and N scenarios • Optimise whitespace organisation • Ensure that cooling could cope with space configurations at Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 of implementation using 6-12 AHUs • Explore the thermal dynamics of the computer room when low- and highdensity racks are placed in close proximity
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USE OF CFD SIMULATION IN OPERATION
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• Check the risk of any data centre changes and maximise performance • Make informed ‘scientific’ recommendations to clients on rack and equipment placement • Allow customers to test future scenarios and take full advantage of the data centre capabilities with confidence • Simulate every data centre change, both in pre-sales and capacity planning
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“ At Thésée, we are proud to work with our business partners such as HPE –who helped us design our data centre, New Generation who helped us build our own portal, as well as Future Facilities and Wattdesign in France who helped realise our solution for a best in class colocation data centre” CHRISTOPHE BOUNIOL PRESIDENT THÉSÉE DATACENTER
availability and increased energy efficiency are Thésée’s competitive advantage and continues to test and implement solutions that will continue to provide these benefits to his data centre facility. Speaking about the collective collaboration that helped bring the data centre to life, Bouniol adds, “At Thésée, we are proud to work with our business partners such as HPE – who helped us design our data centre, New Generation who helped us build our own portal, as well as Future Facilities and Wattdesign in France who helped realise our solution for a best in class colocation data centre.” Thésée has worked closely with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to build a new generation data centre (NGDC), bringing together the best in class technologies and solutions. The collaboration between HPE and Thésée is two-fold – the first being on a design and concept level, allowing HPE to choose contractors, monitor quality, implement changes and integration of the DCMS (along with partner New Generation). The second phase of collaboration focuses on the sales and business development of the data centre, allowing HPE to migrate their client roster to Thésée’s data centre. Pascal Lecoq, HPE’s Worldwide Director of Data Centre Technology Services, adds, “Thésée is a key partner for us in France to develop our service strategy, and we will go to market together in order to commercialise the software for our own customers.” futurefacilities.com
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At the heart of this collaboration is New Generation, offering an enhanced customer functionality through end-to-end integration of all the systems – from DCIM and BMS to operations optimisation components – with the help of their NUVEA PaaS web service portal. New Generation has had a long-standing partnership with HPE, working together to create an integrated management solution for the data centre and its customers. Gilles Cieza, CEO and founder of New Generation, adds that this integration “facilitates the day-to-day management of the data centre operations on the customer14
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front and allows users to have an open and transparent dialogue with their colocation providers for the first time ever”. With the NUVEA PaaS model, Thésée’s end users will be able to log in to a single web interface to see all data centre and operating condition metrics, as well as order equipment and decide on planned upgrades. Customers will be able to see their data centre space with full equipment specifications as a 3D view, powered by the 6Sigma Digital Twin. Thésée will offer its customers the ability to simulate future capacity planning to ensure their space usage is maximised without risk.
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6Sigma Digital Twin by Future Facilities
“The 6Sigma Digital Twin will be used extensively by both Thésée and its customers in the day-to-day operations of the data centre, allowing them to see a 3D virtual replica of their real-time data centre space” DAVE KING
PRODUCT MANAGER, FUTURE FACILITIES
Future Facilities’ 6Sigma Digital Twin and the innovative systems architecture combine to offer Thésée customers a truly unique experience. The use of Future Facilities’ CFD simulation via the 6Sigma Digital Twin allows both Thésée and its customers the ongoing ability to predict outcomes and make operational decisions in a cost-effective and risk-free manner whilst maximising energy and capacity efficiency. The insight offered by Future Facilities’ 6SigmaDCX product suite is crucial to the continued success of the Thésée DataCenter project. Speaking about how Future Facilities continues to
adapt to the needs of the industry, King adds, “We work not only with companies running high-density AI applications but also with companies who are trying to make the most out of 25-year-old ageing infrastructure, so we have quite a large breadth of experience. So, whenever we come up against something new, we're always trying to make sure that our software adapts and evolves to allow people to simulate anything that they have in their existing data centre with our software.”
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