The Customer
This energy company provides natural gas to 343,000 customers and electric service to more than 800,000 customers in Texas.
Their customers' combined energy bills rank among the lowest of the nation's 20 largest cities, and over 70 years, they have generated more than $2 billion in revenue for their city.
The Challenge
Increasing data demands requires additional IT assets and updates over time. These incremental changes led a Texas energy company to having many data sources, applications, and services spread around a single building. Having scattered IT assets isn’t cost effective or secure, and limited the customer’s ability to adapt to change simply and efficiently.
The Solution
By choosing Vertiv’s powerful and compact SmartMod™ infrastructure solution, this utility company consolidated all of its mission-critical applications and services into one centralized and secure location in its existing building.
SmartMod is a modular IT infrastructure solution in the form of a customized data center enclosure. It is a fully integrated, self-contained, rapidly deployable unit that is easy to relocate, built to be adaptable, and designed from the ground up for success.
By reducing energy usage and maintenance expenses while streamlining monitoring and management, the SmartMod reduces overall operations costs and helps ensure that critical technologies always work.
Case Summary
Location: Texas, United States
Product/Service: The Vertiv SmartMod infrastructure provides intelligent, rapidly deployable, prefabricated enclosures for modular data centers, cable landing stations, or network aggregation.
Critical Need: An electric and gas company needed to consolidate their fragmented IT footprint into one compact and secure modular data center.
Results:
- Installed SmartMod infrastructure solution to improve data and internet capacity
- Consolidated fragmented IT footprint, improving their ability to adapt
- Minimized downtime and productivity loss
- Reduced costs by minimizing installation time and eliminating the need for room upgrades
- Created a design that’s easy to reuse at multiple locations
- Custom-tailored SmartMod provided a secure and centralized IT environment that’s built to always work, for years to come
