Challenge
When Secant Technologies, of Kalamazoo, MI, decided to build its own colocation and cloud hosting data center, it wanted a facility that would last 15 to 20 years.
“We set goals for reliability, goals for power efficiency, goals for flexibility and expandability, and we realized as soon as we take over the stewardship of somebody’s data there really is no excuse for that being down,” said Alex Ellingsen, Chief Technology Officer for Secant Technologies.
Strategy
Secant Technologies designed its data center for the highest possible efficiently, reliability, and capacity per rack. Its thermal management configuration, using Liebert DSE free-cooling systems, which allows it to achieve rack densities up to 36kW using perimeter cooling. For low-footprint power protection, it turned to Liebert NX 200kW UPS units operating with flywheel backup.
The Secant Technologies data center has six separate 10-gigabit fiber entrances from carriers and many of those are rings. Reach out to its two other data centers near Detroit, the company can pick up an additional 50 carriers for connectivity to the Cloud.
