Power monitoring service Canara has added Romonet's predictive modelling software to its portfolio of remote data centre management tools.

Romonet CTO Liam Newcombe, at the DatacenterDynamics Converged event in London this week said to service will overcome some of the complexities seen with power management in the data center.

“Most data centers aren’t working properly,” Newcombe said.

“There’s an enduring myth that the data center industry is efficient, but given the complexity and the number of variables involved that is very difficult.”

Newcombe said Romonet can install intelligence that predicts the performance of the infrastructure.

“We’re not into disaster recovery, we’re into disaster prevention,” Newcombe said.

Romonet is currently providing predictive modelling services to Virtus’ flagship West London data center used for colocation to help optimize power use.

The new London2 facility is using a raft of new techniques, including fresh air evaporative cooling, in a bid to reduce its power usage effectiveness (PUE) to 1.2.

Romonet’s modelling software will help the colocation operator to make more informed choices over the design of the data center and implementation of technology, according to Virtus CEO Neil Cresswell.

The company’s software suite uses predictive modelling to control risks and cut costs by assessing the future operations needs of a data center.

By pre-empting problems, Romonet said it can raise efficiency, cut costs and improve the potency of financial forecasting on equipment, IT platforms and workloads.

Cresswell said Romonet gave a comprehensive assessment of its new eco-efficient design.

“We were confident that the design delivered the lowest total cost of ownership for our customers, but the Romonet report was able to reinforce this,” Cresswell said.