For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, this time of year brings increasing daylight and warmer temperatures following the spring equinox in which the earth tilts more toward the sun. For me personally, the season is an opportunity to open my windows and literally air out my house, eliminating all the cobwebs and hopefully their creators — spring cleaning. And I’m not alone in this endeavor.
Spring cleaning can be traced to the Persian new year occurring on the first day of spring in which a house was thoroughly cleaned. The term has also come to be used metaphorically for any heavy-duty cleaning, organizing, or getting affairs in order. It’s in this sense that one retailer valued at nearly $35 billion in 2020, took on its own data center “spring cleaning” with Vertiv’s help.
This leading designer of athletic apparel chose to get its affairs in order in several ways. One primary focus was to become a zero-carbon and zero-waste organization. Another priority was updating its retail IT systems as part of a digital transformation initiative within its supply chain, enabling better connection to its customers. Fortunately, these pursuits are happening concurrently given the advanced power, cooling, and monitoring technologies deployed to both core and edge data centers.
Probably like many retailers who were responding to the demand for data generated by the dot-com boom, this company’s data centers were designed and built in the late 1990s. The operational needs of the business had quickly stretched beyond the capacity of the data center fleet.
Download the case study to see how Vertiv joined with this retailer’s supply chain sustainability team to “clean house” by addressing issues that threatened operations and overall business continuity, such as the following:
- Single heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) structures for data center cooling
- Multiple vendors for support and maintenance
- No cohesive deployment or refresh plan across the logistic data center network
- Rising maintenance costs
- Limited failover capabilities
See how you, too, can partner with Vertiv for your spring (or any other season) cleaning and experience benefits like those in this case study which include a reduction in revenue lost to downtime or service interruption, improved facility resiliency, and operational cost savings.
