Nowadays, efficiency and mobility go hand in hand. With its Rittal Data Center Container, Rittal is presenting an operational "Plug & Play" data centre with a PUE (power usage effectiveness) of less than 1.2. The mobile facility is housed inside a very roomy and robust 20-foot container. It has enough space for up to seven racks fitted with 329 U, and is equipped with a power supply and emergency power back-up, as well as fire detection and extinguishing system. The Rittal Data Center Container uses an integrated direct free cooling system, reducing the energy required for climate control by up to 40 percent compared to conventional air conditioning systems for data centres. Rittal has already used the portable data centre in more than ten projects worldwide over the last six months.

Data centre provider Rittal now presents its fully functional Data Center Container. This "Plug & Play" solution has a complete IT infrastructure, and it can be erected on any available free space. It can be individually configured: Depending on requirements, customers can install their own racks and equipment simply to move their servers in. The basic version already comes with built-in power distribution, a cable compartment, an access system and efficient climate control. The latter is available with a cooling output of up to 20 kW and with 2+1 redundancy.

An economical and environmentally friendly direct free cooling system can be retrofitted in the 7 and 10 kW performance classes, using filtered outdoor air to cool the data centre. The device operates in three modes: summer, winter or mixed. It can operate in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in free-cooling mode for 90 percent of the year, for example. If we assume electricity charges of 14 cents per kW, annual operating savings of up to € 5,000 can be generated by using the technology, in comparison to the expense of running a conventional air conditioning solution. Thanks to the free cooling system, the Rittal Data Center Container achieves a PUE (power usage effectiveness) of less than 1.2.


For use everywhere
The Rittal Data Center Container is an autonomous module that can be deployed in a variety of scenarios: as an interim data centre during expansion or rebuilding work when space is limited (in listed historical buildings for instance) or as an extension where capacity constraints exist. Large modern data centres also use the container modules, since they allow computing capacity to be scaled on demand, which increases the workload. The Rittal Data Center Container is 3 metres wide and is particularly spacious, offering enough room for both operation and servicing. Nevertheless, it can easily be loaded onto a truck, ship or plane.

Since current 20-foot containers are generally not robust enough for sensitive IT equipment, the Rittal Data Center Container offers a strengthened exterior shell with F90 fire protection, as well as theft protection of up to resistance class 3. The access system can optionally be equipped with a smart card reader and an electronic or key combination lock. Besides all this, the Rittal Data Center Container can also be equipped with RiZone software for infrastructure management.