Honeywell has launched its Data Centre Suite, a portfolio of outcome based software solutions that help data centre managers optimise uptime, worker productivity, critical asset health and operational expenses while providing better visibility into sustainability KPIs.
Data centres play an ever more critical role in keeping the global economy productive, while closer to home they support the conveniences of daily life — from working remotely to shopping online.
By digitalising, aggregating and analysing disparate critical systems into a unified data lake, the analytics produced by the on-premises Honeywell Data Centre Suite provides operators more holistic, actionable information to help boost efficiency and decrease costs.
Based on the open architecture Niagara Framework, it combines data from both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) infrastructure, securely enhancing situational awareness at site level as well as global fleet level, enabling condition-based maintenance to reduce downtime risk and operational expenses.
Given the exponential growth of this sector data centre managers are often forced to do more with less while at the same time being pressured to improve uptime, reduce costs and minimise energy consumption.
As of April 2022, hyperscale operators planned to build 314 new facilities.
User-friendly tools that automate processes can help reduce the chance for human error, which caused major outages over the last three years among 40 per cent of organisations surveyed by the Uptime Institute, often driven by ignored or inadequate procedures.
It can also help improve a data centre’s overall efficiency.
Demand for data storage, transfer and processing is insatiable worldwide, which makes it more challenging than ever to run and scale these facilities effectively from a design, build and operations perspective, according to Chris McLaughlin, vice president of offering management, Honeywell Building Technologies.
“Honeywell is expanding its offerings in data centres to allow facility managers to derive actionable insights securely from their own data to help protect uptime, manage maintenance, reduce energy use and achieve scaling agility,” he said.