Open Compute Project Webinar: Achieving Data Center Simplicity and Standardization with a Universal Rack PDU

There was a time when most data centers looked largely the same. No longer. Hyperscale facilities housing cloud and colocation providers bear little resemblance to today’s shrinking enterprise facilities, which increasingly act as a hub for hybrid networks stretching to the edge of the network. If that’s not enough, all of these facilities are evolving differently in ways both subtle and significant in different parts of the world.

The result is a data center ecosystem that is more complex than ever before. The Open Compute Project is, among other things, an effort to simplify that ecosystem, and the Vertiv Geist UPDU emerged from that work. The genesis for the development of the product was the overwhelming number of different rack power distribution units (PDUs) in use around the world. These systems all perform the same basic functions but with subtle and not-so-subtle differences and configurations that make inventory management a nightmare and procurement a maze. With a universal design, universal input and a detachable power cable, the Vertiv Geist UPDU is compatible with AC power topologies that are common worldwide.

This presentation will look at the challenges of complexity in today’s power topologies and the value of standardization through the prism of the Vertiv Geist UPDU. We will explore global nuances around power and power distribution and how the Vertiv Geist UPDU handles the many different power configurations.

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