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Power Assure Wins European Data Center Change and Innovation Award
Santa Clara, CA - June 7, 2011 - Power Assure, Inc., a data center infrastructure and energy management solutions provider, today announced it has won the Data Center Change and Innovation Award from BroadGroup during the Data Centres Europe 2011 Awards, held in London last week.
An independent panel of experts in the data center industry selected Power Assure for this prestigious award for its Power Assure EM/4™ software. The award recognizes Power Assure's innovation and achievement within the enterprise market by providing actionable, real-time and historical insight into power utilization and other key performance indicators (KPIs) for the data center, along with the means to optimize energy efficiency while maintaining service levels. Power Assure enables data centers to gain real-time infrastructure insight and intelligence, maximize use of available space and power; extend the useful life of the data center; and shift load within and across sites. On average, Power Assure can cut data center power consumption by 50%.
"The data center industry and landscape continues to evolve, and is far from mature. This award recognizes the industry challenge of managing the resources and subsystems within the datacenter. This can only be achieved through the development of best practice, and new technologies," said Ashley Davis, chairman, Judges Panel, Data Center Awards 2011. "The winner of this award, Power Assure, stands out for their demonstrable methodology of an integrated and holistic approach to managing their data center assets and ultimately achieving effective energy management."
"We are extremely proud that the European data center industry has acknowledged Power Assure with this prestigious award," said Brad Wurtz, president and CEO, Power Assure. "This is further validation of the power and usefulness of Power Assure's platform. Our goal is to help data center managers make better decisions by collecting, synthesizing and analyzing the tremendous amount of raw data available from facilities and IT equipment and then turning it into useful business information about improving the efficiency, capacity and performance of their data centers."
About Power Assure (www.powerassure.com) Power Assure is a leading developer of Energy Management software for large enterprises, government agencies, and managed service providers. Power Assure's solutions provide visibility, intelligence, analytics and automation to help CIOs, IT directors, and facilities managers optimize capacity, service levels, and power consumption within and across data centers. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, the company is privately held with funding from ABB Technology Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Good Energies, Point Judith Capital, and a grant from the Department of Energy. Power Assure partners include ABB, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, Raritan, UL and VMware.
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