Datacenter
The digital twin
Supplement your 2D DCIM management software with a modern digital twin in 3D. With DC Design, you can visualise your IT room down to the smallest detail, while DC Insight enables you to efficiently manage your IT infrastructure (positioning and space requirements, cooling requirements, network and power cabling, and much more). Organise your technical team and plan the ideal time for changes using our advanced planning interface. DC Reality also gives you in-depth insights into local cooling requirements, enabling you to identify potential negative impacts that could increase the risk of failure.
Cadence Digital Twin Platform
As a pioneer in the introduction of digital twins of electronic devices in data centres, ALPHA-Numerics offers powerful software solutions for designers and operators. This software, developed by the American company Cadence Design Systems, is based on virtual 3D models that calculate the prediction of cooling air paths and thermal conditions (CFD technology) and can display them in a 3D model.
Digital twins of data centres open up new perspectives that go beyond the classic functionalities of DCIM software for the daily management of computer or telecommunications rooms. They are valuable allies in reducing their ecological footprint, a major challenge in the face of climate change. They enable the identification of sustainable solutions for the use of AI (artificial intelligence) or edge computing. At the electronic equipment level, our solutions enable designers to design and validate innovative ways of cooling ever more compact and highly heat-emitting systems.
Design your Datacenter
Design and simulate your IT room with smart objects and use your 2D floor plan as a template. Extensive manufacturer libraries are available for IT equipment and supply technology. We guarantee to make any current hardware available in our libraries if it is not included. Do you only want to manage your IT room? We would be happy to prepare your room with initial equipment so that you can start with DC Insight straight away.
Operate your Datacenter
Manage your 3D IT room with area authorisations, IT planning and appointment management and gain insights and future prospects for available capacities and operational reliability. To grant different teams limited access to area data in your IT room (IT installation service, IT purchasing, availability management), you can use our mobile solution to manage external access via tablet and PC.
DC efficient capacity planing
Your 3D models of the IT rooms provide you with all the data you need to calculate the airways and thermal conditions. Every IT exchange has an impact on the distribution of cooling capacity. Use the integrated CFD solver to get a glimpse into the future and to check ‘what if’ scenarios before the hardware replacement and to avoid IT installations with a high failure risk. We would also be happy to supplement this field of work for you as a service provider.
Our Reality DC Digital Twin Platform provides a comprehensive virtual environment for planning and managing your data centre during operation. This software suite is modular and can be flexibly configured to your requirements.
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The Digital Twin
The basis for a climate simulation is the modelling of a digital twin.
For this purpose, the extensive 6SigmaROOM library is provided in addition to the floor plan.
for ACUs, racks, IT hardware, PDUs, perforated floor plates and much more
via Drag & Drop
3D CFD Simulation
After defining the heat losses in the IT hardware and the possible
Controlled cool airflow from the air conditioners, similar to a weather simulation
The airways and thus the temperature gradients can be predicted fairly accurately.
This is done on the basis of sophisticated CFD technology.