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With Covid-19 pandemic, we see many changes in the way we live and work. This change applies to the healthcare arena. More healthcare facilities are looking into managing patient’s requirements via virtual means. For example, patients do not need to make a trip downtown to central healthcare facilities to obtain medical assistance. In addition, healthcare organizations are exploring how they can render more assistance to patients requiring mid to long term medical care at home.
With the increase demand for virtual consultations and home care, there would be a need to de-centralize or set up IT operations in distributed locations for a more agile IT infrastructure.
Instead of setting up a full-fledged data center at distributed location, healthcare IT infrastructure teams can consider micro data centers (MDC) instead. With Eaton’s iCube, the micro data center (MDC) would be bringing data center operations closer to its users or what is usually described as “closer to the Edge”. The micro data center (MDC) can be set up in remote or distributed locations instead of at a central location and even in locations with a smaller sized room. The system is faster and easier to deploy as compared to a traditional datacenter, which may take a longer time to set up, and the micro data center arrives on-site pre-configured.
Components of the micro data center (MDC) that arrive pre-configured include Rack, UPS, PDM, In-rack cooling for targeted and optimal cooling, a monitoring host to manage the mini data center (MDC), a touchscreen display, temperature, and humidity sensor as well as a power distribution unit (PDU).
The micro data center (MDC) is simpler to maintain post-deployment and the system is scalable for future requirements. The Eaton iCube comes with a comprehensive management and monitoring system with smart and manageable functions to allow integrated management, real-time monitoring, event-recording, and detection of the operation status of the system. Faults can be quickly determined to improve the reliability of the operating performance and simplify the maintenance work of IT administration personnel. The user will be able to monitor UPS, air conditioning, power distribution cabinet, temperature and humidity, water, smoke and other general dynamic environmental parameters.The Eaton iCube is designed as a modular system. This allows users to pick and choose options based on their different data center requirements. IT administrators can easily adjust and update the products they have chosen.
As the micro data center (MDC) can be set up at remote or distributed locations, latency can be reduced. Data collected by IoT devices and smart devices is collected at the remote or distributed location where the micro data center is at. This is often known as collecting the data at the edge. The data collected need not be sent to the server at the central or downtown location. This can help in reducing network latency.
