Power Management Solutions - Overview

Lowers energy costs by 50%
As electricity becomes increasingly expensive due to accelerating demand and carbon emissions regulations, data center operators have less control over their fixed data center energy costs. Power Assure lowers your data center energy costs by dynamically balancing the supply of servers in your data center in order to meet actual customer demand. When user demand drops, Power Assure automatically reduces the number of servers in use. Choose any action you want: put the servers to sleep, turn off selected components, repurpose servers, or shut them down. The “surplus” machines are then available to be turned on automatically when the system detects an increase in customer demand. The result is true demand-based computing, with very high utilization of those servers in use. By increasing your average utilization and reducing the average number of servers in use at any time, Power Assure can save between 50% and 70% on your energy costs for servers under management.

Offers better visibility into power usage
As pressures mount to reduce your growing energy and cooling costs, the lack of visibility into power usage is limiting the ability to accurately benchmark for future business improvement efforts. Power Assure's hosted Monitoring Software tracks and accumulates real-time comprehensive data about power usage and applications loads across your data center resources. This allows insight into all aspects of power usage in your data center, from tracking capacity at the rack level to establishing the cost of power to be accurately assigned to each application, service, or department. The result is much better visibility into how energy impacts all aspects of your services or products. Equipped with real-time energy reports, you can now make informed decisions on where to cut costs and where to invest.

Advances green initiative
Carbon emissions are receiving increased scrutiny, and some sort of Cap and Trade or carbon tax appears likely. These initiatives will punish inefficient users of energy economically — in addition to tarnishing their corporate images. Power Assure can advance corporate green initiatives by dynamically managing and lowering power usage and corresponding CO2 emissions. By tracking CO2 savings with our power monitoring service, you can use these savings for any carbon trading system that may develop, or at a minimum avoid having to buy more carbon capacity. In addition, our energy baseline measurement and audit tools facilitate applications for financial incentives and rebates from utilities.

Easy to implement and manage
Based on our software as a service (SaaS) implementation, Power Assure's software solutions can be implemented in as little as one to four weeks, depending on features and the complexity of your environment. All of our customers receive a customized, fully-integrated customer dashboard for easy energy management. Our service can be hosted either at Power Assure's secure data center, or if security requirements demand it, at your facility.