Facilities Viewpoint
A New Energy Model for Data Center Facilities and Operations Management
Data center construction and management have become increasingly important tasks for you as facilities and/or operations managers. At the same time, energy costs have grown to become a significant portion of your data center's operating expenses. Data center energy costs in the U.S. are expected to rise by CAGR of 15%, based on increasing energy prices and the rapid expansion of data centers.
The number one constraint for data center capacity growth is not space, but access to power. The growth of the data center market, the increase in energy costs, and a new focus on minimizing the generation of greenhouse gases have all combined to cause operations and facilities teams to rethink data center operating models. Power Assure can help tackle a large part of this problem by cutting your data center energy costs in half.
Improve your Energy Efficiency: Measure and Manage
Power Assure EM/4 features a secure, web-based dashboard that integrates and correlates power, capacity/load, and environmental information from throughout the data center. This allows you to view all of your data centers around the globe on a “single pane of glass” or to drill down into a single server in a single rack on a specific floor of a specific data center to see how power is being consumed. With Power Assure EM/4 you can:
- Track an accurate, real-time baseline for power, temperature, utilization and PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)
- Reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions
- Find hidden capacity and stranded power
- Shift power from cooling and other overhead to IT
- Improve PUE
- Prolong operation during power and cooling outages
- Reduce energy consumption of stand-by infrastructure
- Schedule and manage maintenance activities
Furthermore, you can accurately track the cost of power consumed by each application, service, or department in your organization. Our continuous analytic engine processes real-time information and shows how various potential changes in placement or cooling would impact the overall data center.
Power Assure Saves You Money
Data center energy costs will increase significantly over the next five years. Emissions legislation will likely further escalate these costs. But these changes can be an opportunity to drive your business toward greater efficiency. Every dollar cut from your electrical bill flows straight to the bottom line. Power Assure can convert your data center energy bill from a fixed cost to a variable cost, reducing it by an average of 50%. Contact Power Assure to find out more.
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