Honeywell and Vertiv have announced a partnership to create integrated solutions to optimize data-center sustainability, resiliency and operational performance. These solutions are expected to be available in 2020.
The partnership builds on Honeywell's building-management systems (BMS), operational software, and safety and security products along with Vertiv's uninterruptible power supply (UPS), power distribution, thermal management, infrastructure monitoring and modular solutions to enable operators of hyperscale, large enterprise, co-location and edge data centers to integrate multiple domains of data within a data center. The companies will leverage building-operations data to drive optimization of operations, reducing energy use and costs while improving data-center performance and sustainability.
"Data centers face similar challenges as other buildings that have disparate systems that were not designed to work together, but they experience these challenges on a greater scale," said Vimal Kapur, president and CEO, Honeywell Building Technologies. "We look forward to collaborating with Vertiv to offer integrated solutions that make it easier for data-center operators to distill the mountains of data they pull from their equipment into actions that create more efficient and environmentally friendly operations."
"Business continuity is more critical than ever, with more people working, learning and connecting remotely, driving a simultaneous explosion in data and demand for new data centers. There is need and opportunity for data centers to be more efficient, reliable and sustainable," said Rob Johnson, CEO, Vertiv. "Our collaboration with Honeywell will help us to collectively better serve our data center customers. Our offerings complement each other to provide greater value to data center operators."
