Data Centers

Driving efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability

Smarter, Greener Facilities

The ever-increasing output of data from global IoT and IIoT is driving demand not only for more data centers, but facilities that operate at maximum security and efficiency 24x7. This can be a significant challenge in any location, but it’s especially difficult when building data centers in remote areas where you have the necessary space but not the necessary access to reliable power and labor.

As the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation & digital transformation, Rockwell Automation understands the complex challenges, you face. Together with our proven PartnerNetwork™, we can offer you comprehensive solutions that help you create a data center facility that is not only more efficient, more resilient, and more sustainable, but helps you achieve the 99.999% uptime goal your customers demand.

Delivering Solutions Across Your Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Water Management

Since water and energy consumption are intrinsically connected in data center operations, water conservation and reuse are essential to sustainability and efficiency. Gathering and analyzing data from connected systems enables organizations to evaluate progress toward current and future water usage targets and even implement innovations that reduce water and energy consumption.

IT/OT Network Monitoring

Stay on top of both the physical and digital aspects of your data center by converging IT and OT data to optimize operations and meet customer uptime demands. It’s a level of functional excellence that requires digitalization. Rockwell Automation can connect your IT and OT, breaking down silos to turn data into true information that can be leveraged to increase visibility across your data center.

Thermal Optimization

Installing durable, long-lasting industrial-grade controls that are designed for high-capacity environments help you establish a cooling strategy that is more consistent over time, with the flexibility to adapt to external temperature fluctuations.

Server Room Operations

Cloud-based analytics and artificial intelligence can help you achieve a level of predictive maintenance that maximizes uptime and efficiency. Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) can understand and move through their environments without direct oversight to automate tasks big and small, especially in remote areas with limited labor pools.

OT Cybersecurity

Rockwell Automation understands OT environments and can help you create a holistic security zone with multi-factor authentication and countermeasures. We have implemented industrial cybersecurity strategies with some of the world’s largest organizations and offer expertise and solutions that span the NIST Cybersecurity Framework categories of Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.

Energy Infrastructure and Guidance

Intelligent packaged power systems from Rockwell Automation offer simpler power and process packaging, access to device intelligence, and integration between systems. Together, we can help you monitor and measure power consumption to reduce costs and equipment damage and increase safety.

Advanced Integrated Facility

Unlocking the power of a Connected Enterprise® - where connected smart devices open new windows into processes, and data and analytics enable better and faster decision making – securely connects people, process and technologies to improve the overall performance of your mission critical infrastructure.

Building Automation

Your digital environment directly impacts quality. When you monitor and control the critical environment conditions, you help ensure quality and compliance. Increase uptime by monitoring and controlling all connected systems through a single interface. Our validated building management system integrates process control and environmental management for enhanced productivity and improved quality.

Explanation of Rockwelll Automation benefits at every stage of the Data Center lifecycle

Why Partner with Rockwell Automation?

Industrial vs. Commercial Solutions

Rockwell Automation develops industrial-grade solutions for the markets it serves, including data centers. Equipping your mission-critical infrastructure with hardware designed to perform in high-capacity, heavy-duty and extreme environments over long periods of time can help you maintain 99.999% uptime. An industrial rating also requires our products to adhere to strict regulatory standards for safety, emissions, and environmental protection, which can align with your own goals for productivity and sustainability.

Global Distribution Network

Rockwell Automation offers a global network of qualified, authorized distributors carefully selected to exclusively represent Rockwell Automation, and support Rockwell Automation customers in their region. These distributors stock more than 90% of Rockwell Automation products, either at their facilities or yours, and undergo rigorous training to provide you with a first line of local installation and service support across the Rockwell Automation portfolio.

We know the data center landscape

With a distribution network aligned to offer local stocking and service

Speed Time to Market

Rockwell Automation and our PartnerNetwork™ have the experience and expertise to help you reduce the timeline for building a new data center facility or expand an existing facility. We’ll also work with you to incorporate the systems and technology that will help you create a facility that is ready to perform at peak efficiency and resiliency from day one. Talk to us about New Capacity Solutions.

Increase SustainabilityOptimize water and power usage through monitoring, analytics and AI. Achieve ESG imperatives in a high visibility industry.

Optimize Operations

Integrate cloud-based analytics and AI to achieve predictive maintenance. Augment the workforce with robotics to increase response time and consistency.

Increase Resiliency

Deliver native security to the device level with a single pane of glass. Protect power systems through OT network security.

Results Achieved

A major hyper-scaler and global leader in internet and data services sought a turnkey Building Management System (BMS) for a mission-critical, 132,506 square foot, greenfield data center in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Challenge

Deliver a standardized, integrated BMS hardware and software solution for all systems, from water processing and fuel to electrical distribution and HVAC units.

Solution

FactoryTalk® View Site Edition, FactoryTalk® Historian, FactoryTalk® VantagePoint, and FactoryTalk® Edge Manager Software to deliver a comprehensive, accurate, and real-time view across operations while meeting the demands of multiple stakeholders in multiple locations
Redundant ControlLogix® controller systems that provide fast system performance, high capacity, and optimized productivity
Integrate with existing onsite Building Automation System (BAS)

Results