It's easy to keep the status quo, but considering longer-term benefits may be a better strategy for your datacentre.
Spiraling energy costs
Spiraling energy costs, changes in legislation, increased public awareness and concern for the environment are some of the main reasons why an energy efficiency strategy should be implemented within the datacentre.
Electrical energy costs over the life of a datacentre may exceed the actual costs of the datacentre, and may even exceed the costs of the IT equipment housed therein.
Datacentre efficiency
By improving datacentre efficiency, companies can provide for increased IT, storage and network demands, whilst lowering energy usage and reducing total cost of ownership, and increase competitiveness by future proofing the facility.
A multi-faceted approach is required to implement a successful energy efficiency strategy throughout the lifecycle of the datacentre.
By undertaking a thorough audit we will be able to determine the energy efficiency of your datacentre and propose solutions to decrease energy usage and reduce total cost of ownership.
Tools that can help
- Voltage optimisation
- Right sizing (scalable)
- Free cooling
- Free air cooling
- Load shedding
- Evaporative cooling
- Kyoto Wheels
- Heat Exchangers
- Anti Vibration Racks
- Metering
- Intelligent PDU's
- Capacity Monitoring
- Power Monitoring
A thorough audit of your datacentre will enable you to establish a true PUE figure.
This PUE figure will put you in a position to implement a sensible evidence based energy reduction strategy.
