Case Studies

A Customer Success
from the Experts in
Business-Critical Continuity™
havegottenamorehardenedbuildingifwehadbuilt
itourselves.”
Afteridentifyingthesite,Lauterbachandhisteam
focused their attention on facility design. They
identifiedfourobjectivesforthenewdatacenter:
•Scalability:InadditiontotheexistingITequipment,
thenewdatacenterhadtobeabletosupportfuture
growth,estimatedat100serversannually.
•Availability:Thedatacenterhadtobedesignedto
support24x7availability.
•Manageability:Improvemanagementbyensuring
remotevisibilityandcontrolofdatacentersystems.
•Efficiency:Implementbestpracticesandnew
technologies to increase energy efficiency and
reduce operating costs.
Lauterbachsaysthoseobjectivesprovidedthefocus
fortheirconversationswithdifferentvendorsabout
equipping the new data center. From the infrastructure
standpointtheofferingsfromEmersonNetworkPower
were the most comprehensive, which was important
to the BayCare team as they wanted to minimize the
partners they had to work with on the project.
“We knew early on that we were going to go with
LiebertprecisioncoolingfromEmersonNetwork
Power,andthereareadvantagestousingasingle
vendorforthepowerandcoolinginfrastructure,”
Lauterbachsays,addingthatEmersonNetwork
Power’sappealwentbeyondthecomprehensive
product catalog.
“We quickly narrowed our selection to Emerson and
oneothercompany.Weresearchedbothcompanies,
visitedtheirfacilitiesandtouredtheirfactories,”
hesays.“WewereveryimpressedwiththeLiebert
manufacturing facilities and testing environment.
The factory was organized, clean and logical. To us,
those were indications that Emerson is a disciplined
organization and their people take pride in what they
do.Plus,theydemonstratedahighlevelofcustomer
care. They have a strong customer focus and that gave
usconfidencetheycouldmeetallofourneeds.”
RepresentativesfromEmersonNetworkPowermet
severaltimeswithLauterbachtomap
outanefficient,
flexible,growth-ready
datacenterinfrastructure.
They repeatedly mapped watts per square foot via
computationalfluiddynamics(CFD),tweakingthe
inputseachtimetodeterminethebestpossible
placement of precision air conditioners. They settled
ona24-inchraisedfloorwithmultipleprecisionair
conditioningunits,butLauterbachsaystheycontinue
“ We knew early on that we were going to go with
Liebert precision cooling from Emerson Network
Power, and there are advantages to using a single
vendor for the power and cooling infrastructure.”
Doug Lauterbach, director of IS Imaging Services
BayCare Health System