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VERT.com, Inc.

June 2015

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGYA prefabricated, energy-efficient and smart data center module…

8,943,757Technology Available for Licensing.

Advanced Data Center


VERT.com, Inc. is a technology-based company located in the province of Quebec that designs efficient, smart, and reliable advanced data centers. Our solutions meet today’s needs while allowing our customers to anticipate tomorrow’s high-density requirements. VERT.com has exclusive and patented technology (U.S. Patent 8,943,757). Marketed under license as VERT.center, it is a prefabricated vertical module with an innovative method of scalable deployment for data centers. VERT.com has recently developed a new approach for existing building retrofits: "Vertical Data Center Ventilation Systems and Methods for Multi Floor Building - U.S. Patent Pending" as part of a 5 MW high-density data center project in the Financial District of New York City.

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COMPANY

For us, going modular means thinking outside the container!


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Market Analysis

“What VERT.com proposes makes a lot of sense.”- Report by Daniel Bizo, Senior Analyst, Datacenter Technologies and Eco-Efficient IT.

451 Research IMPACT REPORT April 22nd 2015 Startup VERT.com reaches for the sky with prefabricated modular datacenter design…

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It would be false to assume that VERT.center is “rocket science” as we don’t use any unproven technology. We use only off-the-shelf industrial components which can be found in traditional data centers (CRAH units), but our design can support higher capacity components (fans, coils, etc.), and is thus more efficient and robust, resulting in reduced operating and maintenance costs. It’s not a revolution, it’s an evolution!

Our modular solution is streamlined from the design to the construction phase; the most difficult tasks are completed off-site, which eliminates the most expensive modifications. We offer a proven, flexible, and reproducible design using reliable operating manuals with real guarantees in terms of delivery and quality. In the final analysis, our modular solution entails fewer risks than conventional tailor-made design; we don’t re-invent the wheel each time and we are unquestionably more flexible and scalable.

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There has been much discussion about the advantages of developing a prefabricated modular approach versus building a conventional data center. From our perspective, this is outdated as the essential criteria that must be considered today are: 1. cost saving; 2. energy efficiency; and 3. speed of deployment. And beyond a shadow of doubt, the optimum solution to these 3 criteria is prefabricated modular data centers.

The design of conventional data centers is often tailor-made and unique, which likely increases the risk of unforeseen design and construction problems, multiple suppliers, and various trades all offering their services within the framework of complex specifications…all of which can increase operational risks. There are also significant problems with classic design:

1) no hot aisle/cold aisle containment, resulting in air leakage and mixing of hot and cold air;

2) air is moved long distances between the Computer Room Air Handers (CRAHs) and the servers and air is an expensive fluid to move; and

3) it’s a closed system and hot air is recirculated after cooling rather than released outside with fresh air brought in and cooled if needed.

The VERT.center was designed for the specific purpose of overcoming the limitations of conventional design. Instead of having several CRAHs surrounding the server room, the vertical module is essentially a giant CRAH in which rack servers can be placed on several levels. This vertical design makes containment of aisles easier, reduces distances, and makes use of fresh air, allowing for simple, reliable, and cost-effective direct air-cooling.

Modular Data Centers

Modular Is Now!


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“The worldwide market for modular data centers and related equipment is set to grow from $8.37 billion in 2015 to $35.11 billion by 2020.”

- Markets and Markets, June 2015.

According to research agency Markets and Markets, North America is expected to remain the largest modular data center market in terms of size, while Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to emerge as a high-growth market.

55% Global market share

APAC High-Growth Market

Modular Data Center Market


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In 2015, the most popular trend in the modular data center market is to use container-like modules as a deployment unit. The containers are usually deployed inside an existing or new facility and some are designed to operate outdoors. Some vendors market containers to host preconfigured and preassembled computing hardware, some just market the infrastructure without IT equipment. Although this approach can be very modular and, to some extent, scalable, it is not very flexible. The physical dimensions of a standard or even a customized shipping container (or mounted on a skid) impose severe space constraints that usually limit the computer form factors that can be hosted while rendering hardware maintenance operations more difficult.

Promoters of this approach are often hardware vendors of some sort, using the container model to push their own hardware as the backbone of data centers (HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco). For the last 5 years, other types of vendors started to develop and bring to market container-based data centers with customized DCIM software to enterprises in need of data center capacity (Schneider Electric, Baselayer, BladeRoom, Emerson).

Container-based data centers are most practical when computing resources need to be mobile for some reason. In practice, however, even though rapid initial deployment is an obvious competitive advantage, rapid redeployment is a rare requirement because of the relatively short lifespan of computers.

Container-Based Data Center

The first container-based data center, called the “Black Box”, was invented in 2006 by Sun Microsystems. Since then, containers have evolved and many tech companies have included a containerized solution in their portfolio, but no one has come up with a more appropriate module to overcome the limitations of a container.

Further, there is the additional issue of the low-voltage power feeds usually required by these containers that have limited space for in-container power transformation. For large-scale configurations, this forces the user either to inefficiently carry low-voltage energy over large distances, or to combine computing containers with power transformation containers.

Thinking Outside the Container!


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Top and Most Active U.S. Modular Data Center Vendors:

Vendors Revenues Solution/Product +

BASELAYER $ 100MEmergent company backed by VCs + Agressive go-to-market

Spin off of IO data center technology (patented) Business presence mostly in U.S., entered APAC recently (Singapore) and U.K. with IO.

clients: CenturyLink, Fortrust, IO, Golden Sachs, others

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC in billionsFinancial strength + Worldwide business presence

Many modular DC solutions, UPS, electric cabinets, etc. *Acquired APC (now APC by SE) to enter U.S. market (2007)

*Acquired modular data center vendor AST Modular (Jan 2014) Clients: Keystone NAP, Baidu (China’s equivalent of Google), Internet Giants

BLADEROOM unknownUK based company developing modular data center solutions (no patent)

Business presence in U.S. since 2014. (teamed with Modular Power Solutions) Uses containers as « building blocks » to build modular data centers

Sue Facebook for stealing some of their concepts (2015).

EMERSON in billionsFinancial strength + Worldwide presence

Has multiple modular data center solutions in its portfolio Recent projects: RDDC in partnership with Facebook, Modular Data Center in

Barcelona with T-Systems. Clients: Facebook, T-Systems (Deutsche Telecom), others

Industry Key Players

OTHERSGoogle owns multiple patents in the field of data centers. One of them relates to a container-based data center and how to

scale with multiple modules. Google is an important owner of patented data center

technologies.

Amazon owns multiple datacenter-related patent. In 2015, Amazon was granted a patent for a

container-based data center called Perdix. The company has installed several modules on

different sites in the U.S. to support its cloud services.

Microsoft has been using modular data center solutions for almost 10 years. They

started by stacking containers in big facilities, but they improved their methods over the years. Their most recent modular

DC project took place in Ireland.

IT equipment vendors selling turn-key DC containers to push sales : Dell, HP, IBM

Other Internet Giants operating modular DC : Ebay, Facebook, Yahoo!, etc.

Facebook, in partnership with Emerson, has developed the Rapid Deployment

Data Center (RDDC), which is not based on a containerized solution but relates to

prefab and modular construction.

Internet Giants that own and operate modular patented data center technologies.

Other similar key vendors: Colt (UK, Iceland), SGI (U.S.), Huawei (APAC, Europe), CommScope (U.S.), DataPod (Australia)

Logos and trademarks are used for information purposes only and do not imply owner’s consent.


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VERT.center INTRO

June 2015, Silicon Valley, CA: CIO Review Magazine names VERT.com one of the 20 Most

Promising Datacenter Solution Providers in the U.S. for 2015.

The Director of the United States

Patent and Trademark Office

Has received an application for a patent for a new and useful invention. The title and description of the invention are enclosed. The requirements of law have been complied with, and it has been determined that a patent on the invention shall be granted under law. Therefore, this

United States Patent

Grants to the person(s) having title to this patentthe right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States of America or importing the invention into the United States of America for its lawful term, subject to the payment of maintenance fees as provided by law.

U.S. Patent No. 8,943,757Issued February 3, 2015

for

PREFABRICATED VERTICAL DATACENTER MODULES AND METHOD OF

LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT

Marc Parizeau, Ph.D.Eric Mateu-HuonPhilippe Savard

Inventors

The United States

of America

Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office


VERT.center MODULE

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IT floor 1

IT floor 2

IT floor 3

MEP + UPSs

• Ground level for MEP+UPSs

• Above ground for IT (120 racks)

• Include a free air cooling system

• Accommodate liquid cooling

• Mostly an independent data center

• Modules can be juxtaposed side-to-side or back-to-back

Vertical design (4 floors)

High-Density.design

We prefer the simplicity of all-in-one! LESS COMPONENTS = MORE RELIABILITY AND EFFICIENCY.

All this to lower costs without compromising on the data center performance.

Our definition of being modular doesn’t mean building a data center by stacking container-like IT rack modules with a container-like cooling module, power module, UPS module, and maintenance module.


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VERT.center INTERIOR

Top View (1st level)

Side View

Low, Medium & High Density Racks on the same level without any cooling

constraints.

racks racks racks racks



MEP + UPSs

• Tier III design parameters ✓ Redundant mechanical systems

✓ Redundant UPS

✓ Redundant power distribution (A & B circuits)

• Up to 120 standard size cabinets ✓ two rows of 20 racks/level

✓ three levels (800 sq.ft. each IT level)

• High density racks capable (30 kW+)

• Up to 500 kW/level

• Max 1200 kW/module

• Max 160,000 CFM

• Max 2.5 m/s air velocity(at the 1st level)

Configuration

High-Density.design


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3 Cooling modes within the same module:

"The VERT.center module is specifically designed to optimize airflow management, increase density capabilities and enhance data center reliability."

- Marc Parizeau, PhD in Electrical Engineering, CTO at VERT.com

VERT.center COOLING

Up to 1.2 MW IT / 30+ kW/rack / 1.11 PUE Vertical Airflow Patented

• Smart arrangement of components

• Vertical plenums

• Low air velocity (<2.5m/s)

• Regulated differential pressure

Simple Recipe

Contrary to traditional designs where multiple CRAH units usually surround the IT room, VERT. concept is like placing your compute racks INSIDE one huge vertical CRAH unit.

Originally developed for use in the scientific field of high-performance computing (HPC). In operation since 2009 with outstanding performances. Therefore, VERT.center is based on already proven technology.

FREE COOLING CLOSED LOOP HYBRID

http://VERT.com


U.S. Patent 8,943,757

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• Max critical load: 1.2 MW @ 30°F deltaT

• Up to 120 racks ✓ 10 kW/rack on average

✓ 30+ KW racks possible

✓ flexible positioning of low & high density racks

• Redundant busway power distribution ✓ preferred tri-redundancy configuration

✓ no single point of failure

✓ independent A & B circuits

✓ other power configurations possible

✓ N, N+1, 2N redundancy

• Free air cooling most of the year ✓ optional thermosiphon or thermal wheel heat exchanger

✓ optional liquid cooling

Power

VERT.center SPECs (1)

• PUE < 1.11 (excluding mechanical cooling during hot season)

✓ UPS (~4%; double conversion)

✓ fans (<3%)

✓ voltage transformation (<2%)

✓ adiabatic humidification (<1%)

✓ conduction (<0.5%)

✓ other (<0.5%)

Efficiency

VERT.center Advanced Data Center Modules meet today’s needs while allowing our customers to anticipate tomorrow’s high density requirements. Today, data centers are forced to modify their design and increase their cooling capacity (with in-row cooling, rear-door heat exchanger) to respond to a fast-growing market which means higher costs, more complex design, all of which has a negative impact on their overall efficiency. VERT.center is an IT infrastructure that simplifies the cooling of high and low-density compute racks in a common environment. Such simplicity meets current and future needs as efficiently as the best cooling technologies on the market.


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VERT.center SPECs (2)

U.S. Patent 8,943,757

46 feet

52 feet32 feet

Module Specifications• VERT.center is designed to use only

common off-the-shelf industry-standard components.

• No specialized equipment required

• No additional ventilation and cooling equipment necessary

• All the components has been chosen to fit transportation standards.

Every VERT.center is shipped to the site and assembled like LEGO.


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Weight bearing concrete slab

Weight bearingprefabricated wall sections

10’ x 45’

Internal weight bearing steel structure, using

COTS parts On-site assembly;

bolted to wall sections

VERT.center SHELL

TIME SAVINGS 50%compared to a brick & mortar construction timeframe

(ready in months instead of years)

LowPremiumMarkup


Mostly grating floors 5’ x10’ sections (COTS)

VERT.center COMPONENTS

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Some concrete slab sections (prefabricated)

Coils sections (COTS)

Industrial fans (COTS)

KISS(keep it simple stupid)

MICE(make it cost effective)

and DFER(design for flexibility, efficiency and reliability)

using COTS(common off-the-shelf)

DesignPhilosophy


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Vert.Center™ Module(IT-3R configuration)

UPS 1750 kVA

900A

480V

100A

to MEP 1

to ra

cks

400A

500 kVA

600A

400A

415V

to racks to ra

cks

400A

500 kVA

600A

400A

415V

to racks

to ITfloor 1A

to ITfloor 2A

UPS 2750 kVA

900A

480V

100A

toMEP 2

to ra

cks

400A

500 kVA

600A

400A

415V

to racks to ra

cks

400A

500 kVA

600A

400A

415V

to racks

to ITfloor 2B

to ITfloor 3A

UPS 2750 kVA

900A

480V

100A

toMEP 3

to ra

cks

400A

500 kVA

600A

400A

415V

to racks to ra

cks

400A

500 kVA

600A

400A

415V

to racks

to ITfloor 3B

to ITfloor 1B

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...VERT.center POWER DISTRIBUTION

Preferred tri-redundant configuration


Use VERT.center modules to deploy and operate multi-tenant data center… From a wholesale or colocation data center perspective, each VERT.center module serves as a private and secure condominium. It offers a made-to-measure data center environment within the whole data center complex. Clients can have a flexible and scalable configuration which they are able to optimize to meet their specific needs (power, cooling, redundancy, network). In a multi-tenant data center context, each VERT.center has two different access points. One for the client’s staff and the other for the operator’s maintenance team.

VERT.center DEPLOYMENT (1)

3D Incremental Deployment Strategy

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VERT.center is a vertical, prefabricated, standardized, and repeatable module… It already has its blueprints so one or multiple modules can be quickly installed side-by-side onsite to build a scalable data center. It gives the necessary flexibility to anticipate and capture the market and quickly respond to increasing client demands. In a “greenfield” type construction the initial phase always constitutes the largest investment (1st VERT.center module + central unit). However, progressive deployment of further modules will increase IT capacity at highly competitive costs, as the pooling of shared services will be a significant saving for the operator.

IT

Support infrastructure

Modules

- Use of 3rd dimension implies access corridors & freight elevator

- No superstructure required

- Deployed side-by-side or back-to-backMethod of Deployment Patented

- 1200 kW IT capacity increments


VERT.center DEPLOYMENT

Medium scale (1 to 10 MW)

Large scale (10 to 50+ MW)

- Enterprise Private Data Center - Colocation Data Center

- Large Internet Enterprise Data Center - Wholesale Data Center Site


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For a company in need of a data center in metropolitan area (high urban density + property costs). The traditional retrofit is complicated: floor loadings, ceiling height, density… VERT.center offers a flexible installation which can, for example, allow for the deployment of a 5MW data center on a 15,000 sq. ft. parking lot.

For an international tech company looking for the most efficient and economic rapid deployment solution on the market for its future 5 to 100MW data centers without having to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on day one.

Greenfield Data Center



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Existing Data Center ExpansionExisting data center

(2.5 MW capacity)4 VERT.center modules

(5 MW expansion)Aerial view

Flexible expansion- Small footprint (adjacent to a parking lot or to available land) - Easy to fit on any site configurationFor a company which already owns an installation and is seeking to rapidly expand by 1MW increments, whose current data center can be used as the central unit (electrical input, generators, chiller) to which a plug-and-play VERT.center module is connected in the parking lot. This is how VERT.center acts as a high-density module which completes and enhances the existing data center.

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VERT.center URBAN SETTINGS

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Less Footprint

Ideal for footprint-efficient vertical deployments in urban areas.

“Dense metropolitan areas are where the demand for digital

services is the highest.”- 451 Research IMPACT REPORT April 22nd 2015

Scalability at many sites can be limited by area, rather than available power, particularly within metropolitan areas. VERT.center major advantage is its small footprint, which saves space for future phases, giving the operator more options.

Compare to traditional data center our solution reduces real estate footprint by 70%.

VS

For a recent data center project, Schneider Electric had to deliver prefabricated data center modules in limited space. In January 2015, the first modules were installed into stacks of two wide/three high for optimal real estate use. Although the end result is a innovative vertical structure, the design does not benefit from any vertical air movement to optimize the data center cooling.


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• Each VERT.center module is driven by VERT.systems, a smart BMS/DCIM that allows real-time monitoring and management of your IT infrastructure.

• A single view of 1 module or a cluster of modules:

✓ power and cooling management

✓ predictive analysis

✓ capacity planning

• Secure environment:

✓ compartmentalized architecture

✓ biometrics

✓ CCTV

Manage and Control Software

VERT.sytems BMS/DCIM

Based on Mango Automation (Open source)JACE (Tridium) Intelligent ControllersI/O Tridium ModulesCompatible with IOS and Android


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Total Cost of Ownership

VERT. Data Center TCO

Costs Traditional Data Center (PUE 1.5)

VERT. Advanced Data Center (PUE 1.17*) SAVINGS

CAPEX 100 % 70 % 30 %

OPEX (energy consumption) 100 % 75 % 25 %

Maintenance costs 100 % 73 % 27 %

TCO 100 % 70 % 30 %

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Costs Traditional Data Center

VERT. Advanced Data Center

Comparison based on a 5 MW Data Center with 500 racks capacity.

Reduces overall TCO during the entire data center lifespan.

VERT. Advanced Data Centers are less costly due to lower capital investment and extend the cost advantage over their entire lifespan with low operating costs.

*PUE of 1.17 represents realistic power losses for modules + central facility.


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Technology Partnership

VERT. Licensing Program

VERT. Advanced Data Center Technologies Available For Licensing.

VERT.com, Inc. is a leading innovator of Data Center Technologies. Our Intellectual Property is available for licensing in the United States. In conformity with agreed terms, each license covers VERT.com’s patents, direct access to engineering know-how, specific technology transfer, as well as future improvements.

Data Center

VERT.com, Inc. VERT. grants license rights

Client contracts design and construction

High-touch approach through out the project, to assure the data center performs to the specifications.

- Enterprises - Retail Colo - Wholesale - DC solution Vendors

- Low CAPEX - Low OPEX - Low TCO


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VERT. IP Work in Progress

PROJECT : 75 Broad St., Manhattan, New York. Transformation of floors 5 & 6 into Cost-Effective and High Density Data Center (TIER II+ standard).

- Low-cost retrofit data center solution for metropolitan high-rise building - Ideal for urban area existing and well-connected buildings, using less footprint - Innovative and simple design supporting high-density racks (up to 30+ kW/rack)

WIPO Patent Pending (PCT/CA2014/050350)

U.S. Patent Pending (US62/117,388)

NEW Cooling System for APAC Regions. VERT.center now includes an Air-to-Air System

for a megacity environment.

- Allows free-air cooling in polluted environments - Easily incorporated into a VERT.center module - Highly energy-efficient

Vertical Data Center Ventilation Systems and Methods for Multi Floor Building Energy Efficient Vertical Data Center

For you, going modular

means flexibility, efficiency,

and simplicity...

For us, going modular means thinking

outside the container!

Modular Is Now...

Let’s Talk! [email protected] 1 844 644.VERT VERT.com, Inc. designs, develops, and markets innovative technologies under license for the advanced data center industry in Canada and the USA.

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