Data centers are built for multi-year lifecycles, but technology and business continue to evolve, making the infrastructure less than optimal. How do you take a former high-performance facility and transform it to meet today’s business and environmental needs without “throwing it all away” – and maintaining full operations? Explore how H5 Data Centers upgraded its Denver facility to meet efficiency goals with a flexible solution that addresses its growing demands and ensures reliability and scalability. As a colocation provider, H5 Data Centers needed to ensure 100 percent continuous uptime for a broad set of customers while transforming its 20+-year-old facility to a modern standard.

1. Enhance your aged infrastructure without
impacting operations
December 16, 2015

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3. Our speakers for today’s webcast
Rabin Mahanty
Sales director, H5 Data Centers
Rabin is passionate about leading and driving sales
through quality long term business partnerships. Not
only are relationships with customers important, but
also vendors. Referrals and recommendations are
the lifeblood of the business.
Philip Fischer
Global data center segment manager, Eaton
Phil is guided by the principle that anything is possible;
and is passionate about ensuring increased efficiency
that does NOT sacrifice uptime in the data center.

4. Lifecycle of a data center
How do you…
• Optimize the data center
as a long term asset?
• Maintain a cutting edge
facility and ensure
trouble- free operation?
• Ensure compliance
with your proposed
timeline within
budgeted costs? Reliability Safety Efficiency

5. Who is H5 Data Centers?
• Privately-held wholesale data center
company, founded in 2011
• More than 1 million SF under
management
• 7 US markets, coast-to-coast
• Ashburn, Atlanta, Charlotte, Denver,
San Jose, San Luis Obispo,
Phoenix, Seattle
• Nimble and entrepreneurial team
headquartered in Los Angeles
• Target long-term ownership and
management of mission-critical assets
7 Data center markets,
over 1 million square
feet

6. Wholesale Data Center Focus
Retail
Colocation
Wholesale
Data Center
(Turn-Key)
Powered
Shell Data
Centers
Cloud &
Managed
Services
 Customers typically control mechanical & electrical equipment
 Lower rental rates
 Ability for customer to depreciate assets
 Long-term leases
 H5 manages mechanical & electrical equipment and environmentals
 H5 responsible for maintenance and asset reliability
 Higher rental rates
 Medium to long-term term leases
 Customers license smaller space – often small cages or cabinets
 Data center providers manage mechanical & electrical equipment and
environmentals
 Short or long-term leases or licenses
 Customers pay for compute, storage, communication and security services
 Service provider owns and operates hardware and its customers may not
physically see the data center site
 Service provider may offer traditional retail colocation with a hybrid of
managed services
H5Focus

7. H5 Data Center background

8. H5 business challenges and requirements
• Maintain reputation of 100% uptime during renovation
• Simplified holistic project approach
• Single source supplier that can help maximize use of data
center
• Balance between investment for infrastructure vs.
customer revenue
• How to maximize the lifetime of existing equipment while
integrating new technologies

9. H5 Denver data center
Location:
5350 S. Valentia Way in the Denver Tech Center
Description:
12-acre campus supporting nearly 300,000 SF of data center
and office space
Power:
17.5 MW of gross generator capacity
Network:
Access to nearly every major Denver metro fiber provider
Space for Lease:
More than 50,000 SF of raised floor available – with private
suites or customer cages
Other:
Purpose-built data center originally constructed by United
Airlines
Project Start – End:
June 2015 – Mar 2016
 15-year average employee
tenure and 10+ years of zero
downtime
 Major tenants include Fortune
500 companies such as
Wyndham Hotels and Realogy
 Recently announced $10+
million in planned improvements

10. H5 data center project overview
West Building:
• Complete turnkey solution by Eaton
including engineering, procurement and
construction
• Replace existing 3MVA UPS system with
scalable Eaton 9395 parallel UPS solution
• Initial capacity 1.5MVA scalable to
3MVA
• Reduce initial build-out costs and give H5
flexibility to add capacity in the future
• Customized switchgear solution for UPS
paralleling/bypass board to work with
existing limited overhead clearance
Custom switchgear solution

11. H5 data center project overview
East Building:
• Complete turnkey solution by Eaton
• Design by Swanson Rink
• Replaced entire critical power system
including main switchgear, ATS’s,
UPS and critical power distribution
• Created custom busway solution to
transition from existing busway to
new Eaton busway

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Why a single source supplier?
• Overcome misconceptions of
manufacturers
• Benefits of project management
• Risk management
• Quick response for project
fluctuations

13. © 2015 Eaton. All Rights Reserved.
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14. Being vintage is not always a good thing
• Aging equipment
• Low efficiency and power cooling
• Inability to scale or adapt to new technologies
• Regulatory compliance
And that’s not all…what about disaster recovery,
security, speed to deploy, etc…
© 2015 Eaton. All Rights Reserved.

15. • Optimal reliability and availability
• Lower TCO through improved efficiency
• Improved safety
• Enhanced flexibility and functionality
• Improved serviceability
• Greater scalability
• Enhanced user perception
Benefits of upgrades
© 2015 Eaton. All Rights Reserved.

16. Replace old UPS hardware
• Low risk and relatively low cost
• Better efficiency can often fund upgrades
• Improved reliability
• Increased monitoring capability
100%
95%
90%
85%
80%
0% 10% 20% 30%
SystemEfficiency
40%
9395 ESS
Percent Load
9395 Double conversion 9395 VMMS
© 2015 Eaton. All Rights Reserved.

17. Energy efficient UPSs can help grow revenue

18. Implement containment and economizer
technologies
• Hot or cold aisle containment is possible
depending on application
• Increases overall efficiency of data center
• Higher inlet temperatures
• More time spent in economizer modes
• Extends capacity of existing cooling plant
• Allows for higher density deployments

19. Update power distribution systems
• Eliminate or upgrade
transformers
• Update components in
distribution systems
• Improve rack power distribution
• Conduct power system, harmonic
and coordination studies
• Match redundancy of electrical
architecture to application need

20. Consider robust monitoring & operations
• Convergence of monitoring and management to drive energy efficiency, asset
management and enhanced IT workflows
• Energy can’t be managed if it’s not measured
• Various metering solutions can do simple energy management through transient
detection
• Imbed in distribution equipment or stand alone

21. Enhance electrical safety and regulatory
compliance
Technology
• OSHA – Arc Flash and Safety
• IEC – Harmonics to grid
• EU Code of Conduct – UPS Efficiency
Environmental
• Carbon Tax
• Energy Star – UPS and data centers
• LEED
• OSHPD
In many countries, violation is penalized and
compliance rewards are financial

22. Food for thought…
• Best practices can be applied across all data
centers
• An older infrastructure can be improved - new
white papers explain how:
1. Top reasons to upgrade vintage data
centers
2. Best practices for modernizing vintage data
centers
• Utilities offer rebates and awards

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Performance translates to money with
utility rebates
• Why do utilities offer rebates?
• Regulatory requirements
• New generation avoidance
• Peak demand generation costs
• Green image
• Find out your state incentives
• Eaton energy efficiency programs

24. Explore Eaton capabilities at the Power Tour
View success in action
• Best practice customer data centers
• Manufacturer experience centers and factory
tours

25. Considerations for the future
Good “Bones”
Atmospheric
Conditions
Energy
Sustainability
Network
Access &
Latency
Geopolitical
Risk Factors
Long-term operability and sustainability
Energy cost

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For more information:
• H5 Data Centers Selects Eaton to Help Increase Efficiency and Maintain
High Availability in Denver Colocation Facility
• Read more about H5 Data Centers
• Learn more about Eaton capabilities with data center solutions
www.eaton.com/datacenters

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Questions and answers
Philip Fischer
Global Data Center Segment Manager
508.259.5100
philipjfischer@eaton.com
https://twitter.com/fischerphilip
Rabin Mahanty
Sales Director, H5 Data Centers
303.714.7803
Rabin.mahanty@h5datacenters.com
linkedin.com/in/rabinmahanty

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