Rittal vs Vertiv
Rittal and Vertiv are both placed on 6 of the same AI data center parts in this catalog, spanning layers 4, 5, 6, 9. Rittal appears on 6 parts in total and Vertiv on 22.
At a glance
| Rittal | Vertiv | |
|---|---|---|
| Ownership | private | public |
| Headquarters | Herborn, Germany | Westerville, United States |
| Primary listing | none in catalog | VRT |
| Market cap | 74.8B USD | |
| Parts placed | 6 | 22 |
| Layers covered | 4 | 6 |
| Units / subsidiaries | 0 | 0 |
| Seen in machines | 2 | 2 |
Market caps are a nightly snapshot in each listing's own currency, never converted.
What the shared parts are
- Enclosures — The rack cabinet frame itself — the enclosure that chassis and trays mount into, sold either as a standalone product or built in-house by the rack ODM.
- Rack PDUs — The power distribution units mounted in or beside a rack that meter and distribute power to individual devices, sitting between facility power and the rack's internal busbar or whips.
- Coolant distribution units — The unit that separates the IT-side (technology) coolant loop from the facility water loop, exchanging heat between them and pumping and filtering the technology-side flow — sized from in-rack and in-row units up to multi-megawatt facility-class units.
- Rear-door heat exchangers — A heat exchanger mounted on the rear door of a server rack that cools exhaust air with chilled water or refrigerant before it leaves the rack, without cooling the chips directly.
- 2 more in the table below.
The 6 parts both make
| Part | Rittal | Vertiv |
|---|---|---|
| Enclosures Layer 4 — Servers, racks & integration | manufacturer inferred | manufacturer inferred |
| Rack PDUs Layer 4 — Servers, racks & integration | manufacturer inferred | manufacturer inferred |
| Coolant distribution units Layer 5 — Liquid cooling (IT-side: chip to CDU) | manufacturer inferred | manufacturer inferred |
| Rear-door heat exchangers Layer 5 — Liquid cooling (IT-side: chip to CDU) | manufacturer inferred | manufacturer inferred |
| CRAH / CRAC / fan walls / in-row units Layer 6 — Facility cooling & HVAC | manufacturer disclosed | manufacturer disclosed |
| Prefab / modular data centers & power/cooling skids Layer 9 — Building shell, site & construction | manufacturer inferred | manufacturer disclosed |
Only Rittal
Every part Rittal is placed on is shared with the other company.
Only Vertiv
- Power shelves & PSUs layer 4
- Direct-to-chip cold plates layer 5
- Rack manifolds layer 5
- Leak detection, flow & pressure sensing layer 5
- Rack/row cooling controls & software layer 5
- Chillers & compressors layer 6
- Dry coolers, adiabatic/evaporative units, cooling towers, fans & motors layer 6
- Building management, controls, environmental sensors layer 6
- MV switchgear, E-houses, power skids layer 7
- Busway / busbar trunking layer 7
- and 6 more on Vertiv's page.
Named in the same machines
- Nvidia GB300 NVL72 rack teardown
Questions
- Do Rittal and Vertiv compete?
- In this catalog they are both placed on 6 of the same parts, across 4 layers: Enclosures, Rack PDUs, Coolant distribution units, Rear-door heat exchangers and 2 more. Sharing a part does not mean selling the same product to the same buyer, so read each row's product note.
- Which has more placements, Rittal or Vertiv?
- Rittal has 6 placements and Vertiv has 22. Placement counts reflect how thoroughly each company has been catalogued as well as its real breadth, so they are not a ranking.
Generated from the catalog's part-to-company table. Each placement is tagged disclosed, reported or inferred; see sources & method. Neither company is endorsed or ranked here.