A European financial services leader with tens of millions of clients worldwide needed to scale and distribute the organization’s high-performance compute (HPC) capabilities to enable financial risk calculations. They needed to achieve pinnacle performance with energy efficiency and find a solution that enabled direct liquid cooling.

Challenge – Deploy cost-effective and energy-efficient direct liquid cooling (DLC) technology within a high-density colocation data center in close proximity to existing HPC clusters within a single metro.

Solution – High-Density Colocation on Digital Realty’s global data center platform PlatformDIGITAL® provides scalable, turnkey HPC and DLC-ready capacity where and when it’s needed. Lenovo Neptune™ provides performance-enhancing, energy-efficient liquid cooling technology and HPC hardware for data centers.

Result – HPC that supports critical business processes 6x faster, delivers a 30% improvement in energy efficiency, and supports corporate environmental sustainability goals

High-Density Colocation and interconnection on PlatformDIGITAL® enabled the customer to deploy 6 times faster. They also increased their energy efficiency by 30% using Lenovo Neptune™ direct liquid cooling and progressed on sustainability goals by using Digital Realty deployments in facilities certified under green building standards.