INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
UK colocation startup IP
House deploys Schneider
Electric EcoStruxure
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and data-driven insights into critical IT
assets, which helps customers mitigate risk
and reduce downtime.
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P House, a London-based data centre
start-up and new entrant to the
UK colocation market, has selected
EcoStruxure IT, the next-generation cloud-
based data centre infrastructure management
(DCIM) platform, to provide 24/7 monitoring
of their ISO-accredited facility.
“During the planning stages we chose to
utilise software from an industry-leading
vendor. One that had a reputation for
innovation and a focus on continual
improvement,” said Vinny Vaghani,
Operations and Commercial Manager,
IP House. “One of the biggest drivers for
selecting EcoStruxure IT was its vendor-
neutrality and ability to integrate with
different products and provide detailed
data in a single dashboard. As a colocation
provider, we have to adhere to the highest
standards of uptime and resiliency.
Monitoring and management is therefore an
absolute necessity for our customers.”
IP House’s carrier-neutral data centre has
been built to Tier III standards on the edge
of London’s financial district. It contains
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“The data collected by EcoStruxure IT is
aggregated in the Schneider Electric Cloud
and analysed to provide actionable, real-
time recommendations, which optimise
infrastructure performance and mitigate
risk for end-users,” said Kim Povlsen, Vice
President & General Manager, Digital
Services & Data Center Software, Schneider
Electric. “The software is supported by 24/7
remote monitoring through the Schneider
Electric Service Bureau and can be connected
to registered Elite Partners, such as UK-based
Comtec Power, who are able to provide an
additional layer of monitoring.”
14,000 square feet of white space across
two technical suites and will be operational
later this month. The facility also
utilises key components from Schneider
Electric’s EcoStruxure for Data Centers
architecture, including Power Distrubution
(PDU), Switchgear, NetShelter Racks and
Symmetra PX UPS.
“Our clients depend on both uptime and
24/7 connectivity to business-critical
applications hosted within the data centre,”
said Sean Hilliar, Data Centre Manager, IP
House. “Having the ability to proactively
monitor all elements of the infrastructure
with an advanced software solution like
EcoStruxure IT will reassure customers
that we’re providing them with a secure,
competitive and resilient colocation service
that safeguards them against downtime.”
EcoStruxure IT is the industry’s first vendor-
neutral Datacentre-Management-as-a-
Service (DMaaS) architecture, purpose-
built for the hybrid IT and data centre
environments. It provides global visibility
from anywhere, at any time, on any device
EcoStruxure IT is part of Schneider Electric’s
EcoStruxure for Data Centers solution, which
is comprised of three levels; connected
products, edge control software and cloud-
based apps/analytics/services.
Connected products refer to IoT-enabled
hardware such as Symmetra UPS, which are
connected to a management network so
that they can be monitored and controlled
by on-premise software, cloud-based web
applications, analytics or services. Edge
control refers to the software or systems
(either on-premise or via the cloud) that
offer monitoring, alarming and individual
device controls/configuration for physical
infrastructure equipment.
At the top of the EcoStruxure architecture
are the ‘apps, analytics and services’,
which is where the value and promise of
the EcoStruxure architecture is delivered.
Cloud-based applications and Big Data
analytics provide unprecedented insight
to reduce risk, simplify operations and
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