Ever feel like the only constant in the data center industry is that things are always changing? You’re not alone. From rising densities to evolving environmental policies, there’s never a shortage of change in our field. Navigating this constant change is especially difficult for large enterprises with legacy infrastructures.
We believe that every data center should have its own digital twin to ensure data center teams are ready to adapt to these rapid changes. We put together an eBook that details several case studies from large enterprises in various industries with different pain points and needs that have found great success using Cadence data center digital twin solutions.
Aerospace Enterprise Dramatically Improves Data Center Performance
One of the world’s largest aerospace companies uses Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin for data center performance efficiency modeling and asset management. They initially needed a data center solution to help address cooling, compliance, and low operating efficiency issues. Before implementing Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin, the data center management team was using a manual, trial-and-error approach to IT installation planning, which was both time consuming and risky. At one point, they even experienced an outage.
This large aerospace enterprise began using Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin to perform engineering simulations. They built and calibrated models to form a digital twin model of their data halls, enabling them to see what would happen in different scenarios by testing them in the virtual model. Using Cadence’s built-in library items, which include cabinets, IT devices, and more, the aerospace enterprise could easily simulate how new deployments would perform in their data center environment. They also used Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin to examine cooling and power capacities and search for greater efficiency gains.
With help from Cadence tools and services, the company was able to simulate the changes in IT equipment in a virtual environment to understand the performance impact. Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin enabled the company to be more proactive in their approach to data center management. This simulation-based methodology for IT installation planning enabled the data center management team to adjust environments for maximum performance before installation. The company has quantified that it has been able to reduce power consumption and increase performance by 30-40% (depending on the data center).
This large enterprise now operates its data centers more reliably and sustainably, reducing power consumption without increasing environmental compliance risk, so much so that the management team was able to drop PUE at one of their data centers from PUE 4 to 1.6. They continue to use Cadence data center software to assess new deployments and efficiently perform monthly IT asset audits. Implementing Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin into their workflow for these purposes saves their engineering department a significant amount of time. Cadence Reality DC Digital Twin helps this aerospace enterprise overcome the challenge of fulfilling the competing objectives of compliance and efficiency at the same time.
Effectively Design and Operate Enterprise Data Centers
Large global companies in automotive, healthcare, finance, and aerospace are using Cadence data center solutions to effectively design and operate their data centers.
