Industrial Automation in Data Center

Business of all sizes, geographies and Industries turning to cloud services.? Data Centers?play an essential role in our society and digital economy! Everything that happens online is coming in the end from a Data Center. In Asia Pacific we're talking about a growth CAGR of 38% until 2026 for Infrastructure as a Service, means a massive increase of?data?and increase of storage capabilities in?future! (????????????ta)

"Each of us is used to it! We're streaming movies, daily storing pictures in a cloud, having virtual meetings from anywhere or playing online games. In fact, also every business is talking about it: IoT, Industry 4.0, Cloud Computing, Big Data, 5G, just to name some trends and technologies"

Quote: Nadine Mossmeyer, Siemens Factory Automation

Everyone uses it every day and knows the buzzwords from the newspapers, but what is actually the technology behind?

To meet the requirements of all this new trends and technologies we need high available and secure facilities which run 24/7. Of course the servers are the core component of a Data Center, but the facility itself consists of many equipment's and systems to keep the IT infrastructure running. Power supply and UPS, fire safety, physical security and HVAC systems are necessary to enable the operation and to protect the data. Any failure of a component can lead to an overall outage of the Data Center. This is why the equipment also requires to be monitored and controlled in order to achieve a high level of availability and maintainability of a mission critical Data Center. And this is exactly where Industrial Automation can be utilized to design a robust, standardized solution..

What are the challenges where Industrial Automation comes into picture?

1. Availability
2. Sustainability
3. Security

Maximum uptime. Highest energy efficiency. Full scalability. Utmost security and safety. The stakes are high, and challenges are manifold! I'm happy to share some videos which Nadine Mossmeyer and I initiated to have a deeper look to Data Centers and explaining more about.

Starting with an overview about Data Center and talking about Industrial Automation technology like SCADA, Controller, redundant systems as well how to overcome challenges like Security and Sustainability.

Maximum plant availability is essential – but how can you achieve this goal? The redundant and high-availability SIMATIC S7-1500 R/H CPU is the answer. And how about HMI Redundancy? Possible with SIMATIC WinCC, Adrian Wardhana explains more...

How about buildings and the interaction with Industrial Automation? Talking about Electrification, Automation and Digitalization as main pillars of the Siemens portfolio and the Integrated Data Center Infrastructure Management Suite with Giuseppe Leto.

How can SIMATIC technology TIA Portal, controller or SCADA systems support to reach security and sustainability goals? Industrial Automation in Data Center, last video we talk about Siemens Defense-in-Depth security concept and Energy Management for higher efficiency in Data Centers.