The Smart Alternative to a Brick and Mortar Data Center: Dell MDC
Intelligent Connectivity and Flexibility: The Dell Modular Data Center
Take a look at the hyperefficient, snap-together, flexible choice over the traditional brick and mortar or pod-type data center: the Dell™ Modular Data Center (MDC) solution. Many key benefits make the Dell MDC a compelling alternative for your data center solution. Read a few of those benefits, next:
- Speed: The Dell MDC can be designed, built, and up and running 75 percent faster than a traditional data center.
- Efficient: Designed for hyper efficiency, the Dell MDC choice provides important advantages for flexible growth and cost reduction. When you choose an MDC from Dell, the Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) engineering team works hard to optimize your entire data center to reduce operational costs. Best of all, the MDC is modular, so you can add only the modules you need, incrementally, as you grow, without substantial up-front costs.
- Flexible: Where the competition force fits IT into a rigid shipping container, we collaborate with customers like you to custom build your MDC.
The Dell MDC specialists' team has experience assisting customers to build over 100 modules with over 25 megawatts of deployed capacity. This dedicated team modular infrastructure experts from Dell is uniquely qualified to design each module for your workload, physical environment and budget to ensure the structure fits your specific IT, cooling and power needs. In addition, each project is managed hands-on from beginning to end by an experienced Dell team member — not through third parties.
Review the Dell MDC case studies and watch the videos on this page to see — and hear — satisfied customers describe their experiences with Dell. Then make the smart choice for your business: the Dell Modular Data Center solution.
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Learn More About the Dell Modular Data Center
Whether you are considering a cloud solution, server virtualization deployment or just a more efficient, power-wise data center for your business, the Dell MDC can fit your strategy. Integrated, pretested and delivered to your site as a complete solution, the power and space-efficient MDC can fit into your business and is expandable to meet future needs. Built to be power- and thermal-output friendly, the Dell modular solution will be up and running in days instead of months. Compared to ISO containerized solutions, the Dell MDC provides important differentiators:
- No restrictions fitting IT and supporting equipment inside a fixed 20' or 40' containerized data center.
- Just the right amount of power or cooling for your workload based on your needs.
- Expand to add power or space, whenever you need to, by simply adding more modules.
- Flexible, modular design based on an optimized steel frame.
The modular design features include:
- The IT module houses custom 54U racks in configurations of 15 or 20 per IT module.
- The cooling module automatically adjusts the cooling to maintain the required temperature.
- The power module supports redundant power inputs, uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) and battery subsystems for N, N+1, and 2N power availability.
- Modules are shipped directly to you, starting with as few as one single loaded IT module and the related cooling unit. The two components are shipped together on a single 48' single-drop standard flatbed (dual axle). Special transit requirements are not generally required.
- The monitoring and management IT modules, and cooling and power modules via Modbus TCP are managed by the Dell MDC programmable logic controller, via Modbus remote terminal unit or TCP, which interfaces with the infrastructure subsystems and communicates to the network operations center, or building management system.
You don’t have to bet your budget dollars on guesswork. The Dell MDC team will collaborate with you to create an optimized modular data center solution based on your unique workload, your location and availability and efficiency requirements.
You can have confidence that the experienced Dell team will create the best solution for your business. Because the Dell MDC is a completely customizable solution, you can get the data centers you need with the features you require.