IT Viewpoint
Improved Service Uptime
Power Assure is committed to reduce energy consumption of data centers by at least 50% while improving service levels. The company has developed a solution to eliminate high incremental costs of service uptime improvements by using dynamic resource allocation procedures that respond automatically to changing service level requirements. With Power Assure's cloud based EM/4 platform you can:
- Ensure performance SLAs are met
- Enhance reliability of business continuity processes
- Automate disaster recovery plans
- Provision Virtual Machines by Quality-of-Service
- Automated QoS assignment and identification
- Virtual Machine dynamic resource adjustment
- Manage IT capacity and load using capping, throttling, sleeping, and runbook automation
- Handle HW refresh and consolidation
Power Assure platform reacts automatically to unforeseen events to optimize data center operations. By automating your processes in Power Assure EM/4 automation engine, you can respond to effectively and prevent a wide range of problems — from a single server outage to an entire site going down — without manual intervention. Power Assure allows the servers across multiple data centers to be managed as a pooled resource, facilitating management for maximum efficiency. Power Assure also factors in utility alerts, demand response requests, and time-of-day pricing vs. latency considerations to optimize resources allocated at each data center.
Moving from “Always On” to “Always Available”
Electricity typically consumes at least 25% of a company's IT costs. The root cause of this high expense is that data centers are built to remain “Always On”. You are forced to build to meet peak demand without the ability to predict demand spikes. During non-peak periods, when servers are not needed, they are still drawing an average of 70% of their maximum electrical load. Today's servers—even the newest, most efficient servers—vary their electrical demand between 60% and 100% based on load, while your actual application load may vary from 5% to 75%.
The solution is to use Power Assure's cloud-based EM/4 solution to move to an “Always Available” strategy. Power Assure EM/4 platform allows you to optimize IT resource allocation to meet actual customer demand with the computing supply needed to guarantee expected service levels.
Power Assure Can Help
Data Center operational costs will increase significantly over the next five years. But this change can be an opportunity to strategically drive your company's operations policy and reap significant efficiencies for the business. Contact Power Assure to find out more.
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